Drastically Cut Development Time
Heat shield performance hinges on several key factors, including position, shape, material properties, and conduction within and between material layers. Environmental effects, such as natural or forced convection also affect shield performance. RadTherm allows extremely rapid and intuitive manipulation of these parameters through the graphical user interface. Geometry is imported as surface mesh only—this keeps model size small, and allows thickness to be assigned within RadTherm. Models can be set up in minutes and parameters modified in seconds.
Fast, Complete Solutions
With the model configured, RadTherm's state-of-the-art algorithms deliver a complete solution (radiation, conduction, convection, and advection) faster than any other software package. Your heat shield performance can be improved and modified faster than ever before. For example, to redirect radiant heat, quickly change material thicknesses or add an insulation layer—all within RadTherm's GUI. There is no need to redevelop solid geometry or recalculate view factors. Your shield design can be improved and supporting data provided to your customers.
RadTherm helps to sell your design as well, because steady-state or transient results can be viewed and animated by your customers anywhere—using our free ViewTherm software. Your customers will have greater confidence in shield performance.
RadTherm makes the difference in the fast-pace world of development; rapid model setup, short solution times, and efficient communication of results yield faster product development and early closure of sales.
Improve Model Accuracy
RadTherm offers a complete external environment. Our terrain model incorporates the full effects of solar shadowing, multiple reflections, and re-radiation of geometric features (e.g., radiation exchange between vehicle exhaust systems and asphalt road surfaces).
Illustrate Shield Value
Quickly demonstrate improved thermal comfort and safety around heat sources: the model above was constructed and solved by a novice RadTherm user in a few hours, clearly illustrating the benefits of a single-layer heat shield. "What if" design questions are answered quickly and with minimal effort. If your team needs immediate model results, ThermoAnalytics offers contractual modeling and consulting services. We can quickly deliver contract models and/or analysis.
Learn More about Thermal Analysis Applications
Our thermal modeling team performs CFD analysis on thermal systems. They focus almost exclusively on solving multimode heat transfer problems. We frequently combine CFD analysis with thermal modeling in RadTherm.
Electronics thermal analysis can be computed across multiple scales, from component models to enclosure design optimization for packaged and cooled systems. We have analyzed aircraft electronics, automotive instrument panels, underhood circuitry protection, and even outdoor electrical boxes.
Heat shield performance hinges on several key factors, including position, shape, material properties, and conduction within and between material layers. RadTherm allows extremely rapid and intuitive manipulation of these parameters.
CFD Experts employ our RadTherm Software to improve thermal simulation performance when computing transient solutions, when surface to surface radiation plays an important role, when they need early concept analysis, and when their systems will be subject to environmental thermal loads.
Our Human Thermal Simulation Module is the state-of-the-art technology for predicting human thermal comfort, safety, and effectiveness. All thermoregulatory responses are supported and based on activity level.
