The application of a computational fluid dynamics program, `FloTHERM´, to electronic thermal analysis

FloTHERM is a new CFD software system aimed at providing a design tool which can readily be applied to electronics thermal problems by users without special CFD knowledge or expertise. It makes use of well-established CFD solution techniques, packaged in a flexible and user-friendly software environment. Relevant features of FloTHERM include: fully-conservative finite-volume formulation of the equations of conservation of mass, momentum and thermal energy; application to natural-convection, forced- or mixed-convection problems; efficient, implicit handling of conjugate heat transfer, enabling heat conduction in solid items to be analysed simultaneously with flow and heat transfer in the cooling fluid; solution options for 2D or 3D problems; steady state and transient solution options; and automatic disc storage allocation