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Tube enclosure with radial fins
Sauna V5.5 provides important new features
- Cylinder, bar and tube assemblies
- Can-shaped enclosures
- Integrated flow networks for efficient liquid cooling simulation
- Multiple node planes so stacking of assemblies is not required
- Temperature contours shown on all surfaces
Cylinder, bars and tubes
New cylinder, bar and tube assemblies
- Very easy to create
- Not just cylinders and round tubes, a variety of bar and hole
combinations are supported
- Use bars and tubes for:
- cylindrical components (coils, capacitors, resistors)
- liquid cooling applications
- heat loss through wires
- Multiple node planes, plane density can be modified by user
- Separate cooling mode for front face, back face, side surfaces and
internal surfaces
- Temperature contours shown on all surfaces
Round can model with cylindrical components
Can-shaped enclosures
- Easy to create, largely the same as creating a rectangular box
- "Plate in can" and "Board in can" commands provided, just as
for rectangular boxes
- Convection and gray radiation networks are easy to creates
- Can use cylindrical shaped components within a can (or rectangular box)
Cold plate model
Integrated flow networks for efficient liquid cooling simulation
- Easy to create a 3D chain of tubes (round or rectangular)
- Flow network (liquid or air) can easily be added to the inside of tubes
and blocks
- Model cold plates
- Use for automotive and battery liquid cooling
New assembly and node shapes
- New assembly shapes: triangle, poly 5, poly 6
- New node shapes: poly 5, poly 6, circular (16 sides), sliced circle (7-16 sides)
- Provides important modeling flexability
Other improvements
- Create rectangular hole by defining two points (new option, can still
create hole with center point and dimensions)
- Filled hole command
- similar to creating hole, except that hole is filled with a new
assembly with the same material
- very useful for creating a section with higher mesh density inside
a larger assembly (no slicing required)
- if necessary, can change the material, useful for
modeling a heat sink with copper insert
- if necessary, can change the number of node planes in the insert
Availability
- Availability: December 2022
- Feature list is preliminary
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