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RadTherm® Heat Transfer Analysis Software
RadTherm heat transfer software is a professional thermal simulation tool for comprehensive CAE analysis. Your product's steady state and transient heat transfer behavior is predicted by RadTherm software. Armed with a complete temperature distribution and heat rates for radiation, conduction and convection, your team can maximize engineering options in early stages of development or validate final product design.

RadTherm's highly efficient Graphical User Interface and numerically optimized solver provide your team with comprehensive heat transfer solutions and a fast return on investment. Join the many leading simulation teams who use RadTherm to achieve faster time-to-market and reduced testing costs. Read About New Features in RadTherm 9.0.

Check out our Guide to Getting Started including Video Tutorials.

Sample model: Brake system transient analysis with 10 stops. Read about this model. Brake Heat Transfer Analysis Results Animation

RadTherm is equipped with everything but your surface mesh: pre-processing for conductivity and mesh normals, boundary condition set up, an optimized thermal solver, and post processor / results viewer. With minimal effort you can analyze conduction, multibounce radiation, and convection (steady-state or transient). All functions are integrated into one carefully designed graphical user interface allowing users to analyze designs very quickly and accurately.


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RadTherm's highly-optimized algorithms handle even the most complex heat transfer questions. Written entirely in portable C++, RadTherm maintains speed and file compatibility across platforms. A state-of-the-art voxel-based ray tracer is used to compute radiation view factors and solar projected (apparent) areas. This ray tracer provides the fastest radiation exchange solver on the market.

What can RadTherm Heat Transfer Software do for you?
Answer Thermal Design Questions:

  • Deliver solutions to comprehensive heat transfer management problems. RadTherm is a professional thermal modeling program that predicts the full temperature distribution of your product or system. From these results, you can modify your design and test the system's heat transfer response to the change. For example, active and passive cooling can be tested for cost-benefit analysis.
  • Complete thermal solution. Solve for conduction, radiation, and convection in both steady-state and transient conditions.
  • State-of-the-art Speed. RadTherm is the industry benchmark for speed, accuracy, and flexibility. Faster setup and heat transfer analysis save you time and money. This translates into better customer focus and quicker time to market for you.
  • Flexibility. Import your surface geometry and change designs with ease.  Manipulate the geometry within RadTherm to improve your heat management design.
  • Integrate with CFD. Seamless integration with CFD results from major CFD applications, such as Fluent, Star-CD, and Vectis.

Accelerate Your Engineering:

  • Get heat transfer answers faster. RadTherm answers key thermal design questions with blazing speed and accuracy.
  • Stay focused. The intuitive Graphical User Interface keeps your heat transfer simulation on target—no wasted time with clumsy data files.
  • See results NOW. View detailed thermal results during the solution process, and in the post processor. Interact with the model during the thermal simulation.
  • Create, edit, and mesh geometry with ICEM CFD and directly import into RadTherm.
  • Guaranteed Performance. We stand behind RadTherm with a 30-day unconditional guarantee.  Free Demo Version Available.

Empower Your Workgroup:

  • Cross-platform. RadTherm provides Windows, Sun, SGI, HP, and Linux identical interfaces.
  • Share files easily. Single file data storage with rigorous cross-platform capability.
  • Unlimited viewing. View your heat transfer simulation results with our free ViewTherm program. Your management can review the results and share design improvements with other teams. Download ViewTherm here at no charge.

How Does RadTherm differ from Wintherm?
RadTherm is designed for large-scale system-level thermal analysis. RadTherm handles very large models (limited only by your computer resources), whereas WinTherm is restricted to 20,000 thermal nodes (typically 10,000 elements). RadTherm also has advanced features which allow large models to be solved faster. Examples of these features are:

  • Radiation patches can be assigned to groups of elements—near planar elements share radiation exchange calculations.
  • Adaptive solution relaxation—a numerical technique for automatically tuning the solver routine.
  • Import convection data from 3rd party computational fluid dynamics (CFD)software.
  • Interpolated assigned temperatures: this imposes a smooth 3-D temperature gradient across a part with minimum temperature inputs—used to generate part temperatures from thermocouple point data.
  • Batch Mode—execute multiple solves from the command line.
  • TDF Library for interfacing directly with your own pre or post processors.
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