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Accelerate your thermal design workflow with cloud-native multiphysics. Simulate steady-state and transient heat transfer, conjugate heat transfer (CHT), thermomechanical effects, and radiation—simultaneously across multiple design variants.
Test heat sinks, PCBs, enclosures, heat exchangers, and battery systems under real-world operating conditions.
Iterate on geometry, materials, and boundary conditions in minutes, not days, to ensure your thermal design delivers peak performance and reliability.
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Use AI surrogates and pre-trained foundation models to get thermal performance predictions in seconds. Explore thousands of design variants—from heat sink geometries to enclosure layouts—and identify winning concepts before committing to high-fidelity simulation.
SimScale AI unlocks new ways to innovate in thermal management. Explore whole design spaces in minutes and make design decisions with confidence, reducing iterations and increasing engineering velocity.
Master the complex interaction between solid conduction and fluid convection that defines real-world thermal behavior. Whether you need robust body-fitted mesh or the immersed boundary method (IBM) for intricate electronics geometries, SimScale adapts to your needs.
Don’t simplify your physics – simulate it. From electronics enclosures with forced air cooling to liquid-cooled battery modules, get the high-fidelity conjugate heat transfer insights you need to push your thermal design to the limit.
Predict temperature fields across multi-material assemblies with confidence. SimScale’s heat transfer solvers handle temperature-dependent properties, anisotropic PCB stackups, thermal interface materials, contact resistances, and joule heating for electrical components.
Go beyond simple hand calculations. Simulate complex multi-component assemblies—from power electronics busbars to LED lighting fixtures—and find thermal bottlenecks before they become reliability failures.
Account for all heat transfer pathways. SimScale’s radiation modeling includes surface-to-surface view factors and solar loading—critical for outdoor equipment, LED lighting, high-temperature applications, and any environment where radiative exchange is significant.
Understand how thermal loads cause structural deformation and stress. Simulate thermal expansion, thermal cycling fatigue, and coupled thermo-structural effects in valves, pipes, pressure vessels, PCBs, and polymeric components—ensuring mechanical integrity under real operating temperatures.
Power dissipation is climbing and form factors are shrinking—you cannot afford thermal design failures. SimScale’s CHT methods enable robust thermal analysis of power electronics, PCB assemblies, data center cooling, and RF packaging with detailed component-level modeling and anisotropic material support.
The electrification mega-trend demands robust thermal management for safety and performance. Simulate charging and discharging thermal behavior, optimize cooling channel designs, assess thermal runaway risk, and validate packaging designs—ensuring your battery system meets the most demanding safety and performance requirements.
Design and optimize heat exchangers with confidence. Sweep across flow rates and operating conditions to generate performance maps in parallel. Analyze shell-and-tube, plate, and custom geometries to find the optimal balance of thermal effectiveness, pressure drop, and cost.
Evaluate indoor thermal environments against ASHRAE 55 and ISO 7730 standards. Simulate air distribution, PMV/PPD comfort metrics, and thermal stratification for offices, data centers, hospitals, and commercial spaces—ensuring occupant comfort and code compliance.
Siemens Energy partnered with SimScale to accelerate thermal design iterations for 3D-printed industrial equipment—reducing thermal design cycle time by 30% while improving product performance and reliability.
Check out the latest thermal management simulations performed in SimScale and validated against experimental and/or analytical results.
Check out the latest thermal management simulations performed in SimScale and validated against experimental and/or analytical results.
Check out the latest thermal management simulations performed in SimScale and validated against experimental and/or analytical results.
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SimScale supports a comprehensive range of thermal simulation types including conjugate heat transfer (CHT), steady-state and transient conduction, natural and forced convection, surface-to-surface radiation, solar loading, and thermomechanical analysis. You can simulate everything from simple heat conduction in solids to complex fluid-thermal interactions in electronics enclosures, battery systems, and heat exchangers.
Yes. SimScale offers both body-fitted and immersed boundary method (IBM) conjugate heat transfer solvers specifically suited for electronics cooling. You can model PCBs with anisotropic material properties, thermal interface materials, joule heating, and detailed component-level power dissipation. The platform handles complex geometries typical of electronics enclosures, power electronics, and LED thermal management.
Yes. SimScale’s thermal solvers are industry-proven and validated against experimental and analytical data. We provide a comprehensive library of validation cases covering conjugate heat transfer, natural convection, battery thermal management, and thermomechanical effects. Results consistently match real-world physics within critical engineering tolerances.
You only need a standard laptop and an internet connection. SimScale is 100% cloud-native, offloading computation to high-performance computing (HPC) resources on demand. You can run multiple parametric studies simultaneously—sweeping across cooling configurations, materials, or operating conditions—without slowing down your local machine.
SimScale supports all standard CAD formats including STEP, IGES, Parasolid, and STL, plus direct plugins for SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Onshape, and other major CAD tools. Import your geometry directly, and the platform automatically detects solid and fluid domains to streamline your thermal simulation setup.
Cloud-based thermal simulation eliminates hardware limitations, license server management, and installation complexity. With SimScale, you access unlimited HPC resources through your browser, enabling parallel parametric studies that would be impractical on a desktop workstation. There’s no software to install, no waiting for license tokens, and teams can collaborate on thermal designs in real time.
Absolutely. SimScale supports thermal simulation of battery modules and packs, including charging and discharging thermal behavior, cooling channel optimization, thermal runaway assessment, and packaging validation. The platform handles the conjugate heat transfer between battery cells, cooling systems, and enclosure structures that’s critical for EV and energy storage applications.
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