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ANSYS Icepak Testimonials |
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Testimonials“One of the biggest challenges Datron engineers face is simulating natural convection. This is inherently difficult and expensive to simulate because the buoyancy forces are constantly changing. The Datron team developed a typical natural convection problem and compared the ability of all the leading thermal simulation tools to solve it. Several of the software packages took 24 hours or more, while ANSYS Icepak software solved the problem in only 20 minutes. Datron engineers liked the non conformal meshing tools in the ANSYS Icepak product that make it possible to separately mesh — usually with a finer mesh than the rest of the model — critical areas within the system, such as high-dissipation components. Such a process increases the accuracy in the critical areas without unnecessarily increasing computational time requirements.” - Patrick Weber “For many years, we have been prototyping and re-prototyping to pass our vigorous thermal requirement. Lots of money and time have been lost but worst was the big delay in our schedule. Today, with the use of Icepak, we are able to optimize the design during the conceptual design phase. When we tested our first prototype, the difference between the measured data with the Icepak result was .5°C for the 250A design, and .95°C for the 600A design. In addition, the simulated scenarios show that the units will pass the 150% overload at an altitude of 2000m. This is a big step to shorten our design and development time and to deliver a reliable and cost effective product. I am very pleased with the accuracy obtained and am grateful for the prompt support from all highly professional and very competent application engineers.” - Kylam Doan, “We chose Icepak over other electronics cooling software for its ease-of-use and several advanced features. The universities and telecommunication companies we work with tell us that Icepak is the appropriate software to use in the field of electronics cooling. This was also very important to us. In addition, we can get access to advanced models in FLUENT, if and when needed. Icepak contains several features that benefit our needs, including the ability to handle circular, cylindrical, elliptical, and polygonal objects, both in 3D and 2D, allowing us to handle details like heatsink fins with aerodynamic design. Icepak is also faster due to the smaller meshes that follow the complex geometry. Further, the non-conformal (assembly) meshing creates models with fewer cells, retaining the degree of accuracy. Icepak also offers a "Zoom-In Model", helping us to analyze a selected region of a full-sized model in greater detail by automatically creating the zoomed-in model with boundary conditions from the full-size model.” - Mattias Nyqvist, “Schneider Electric, a leader in the field of electrical distribution and industrial automation, has standardized its thermal management tools, and has selected Icepak and FLUENT software from Fluent to help in this effort. Icepak is successfully used by the design teams, and responds to most of Schneider Electric's thermal simulation needs. It predicts the air flow and heat transfer in the equipment with accuracy and precision, and helps reduce product cost and development time.” - Laurent Tarbouriech, “ABB engineers continuously strive to improve product efficiency, but some heat losses are inevitably present, from small light dimmers to large converters. Since product performance and reliability are ABB's primary targets, it is vital to have an excellent thermal design. Low temperatures and low temperature gradients are the keys for higher reliability. A more efficient thermal management also allows more power to be drawn by the same device, thus stretching its range of operation. Icepak software provides a quick, accurate and reliable tool for the thermal management design and analysis of our products.” - Dr. Matteo Fabbri |