Leverage advanced design and manufacturing technologies like microchannels, implicit modelling and topology optimization to get the edge over your competitors.
With SimScale, engineers can virtually test, validate, and optimize cold plate designs with unparalleled speed and accuracy. Predict pressure drop, temperature distribution and flow field during all design stages. Leverage cloud-native, AI-powered simulation to move from concept to production faster, with full confidence in your design’s real-world performance under all conditions.
Use AI-powered simulation to transform your design process. Deliver predictive results almost instantly, allowing you to explore more design variations in a fraction of the time. This rapid feedback loop helps you identify optimal thermal management early, reducing costly physical prototypes and ensuring your final design is both innovative and reliable.
Slash manual time investment with help of AI agents and automation templates.
Predict the pressure drop in the flow channel accurately with appropriate wall modelling and automated advanced meshing techniques. Get invaluable insights on design options from flow field cut plots or have an AI agent assist you.
Dive deep into all relevant cooling objectives. Ensure peak temperatures stay within acceptable limits and control the temperature distribution to optimize for applications sensitive to high temperature ranges like battery packs. Combine the flow and heat transfer simulation with Joule heating to account for accurate power inputs in all load scenarios.
Improving heat transfer efficiency and lowering the pressure drop are conflicting objectives by nature as physical phenomena like turbulent flow increase the heat transfer potential but at the same time increase the pressure drop. Use multi-objective optimization workflows with AI agent support to find the design sweet spot for your application and have all requirements covered.
Using SimScale in the early R&D stages of the product, we were able to fully leverage simulation capabilities into our product design process. This allowed us to quickly set up different cooling scenarios for our battery cells using SimScale’s CHT module to efficiently analyze the impact of design changes on battery module performance.
Check out the latest cold plate and thermal management simulations performed in SimScale and validated against experimental and/or analytical results.
Check out the latest cold plate and thermal management simulations performed in SimScale and validated against experimental and/or analytical results.
Check out the latest cold plate and thermal management simulations performed in SimScale and validated against experimental and/or analytical results.
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Sign up for a free Community account, then open one of SimScale’s public cold plate projects to explore a pre-configured simulation setup. Modify the geometry, adjust operating parameters, and run your first CFD or thermal simulation — all within your browser in minutes.
SimScale supports a wide range of cold plate designs including microchannel cold plates, pin-fin designs, serpentine flow paths, counter-flow configurations, and topology-optimized geometries. Each can be analyzed for pressure drop, temperature distribution, and heat transfer efficiency.
Traditional thermal simulation software runs on local workstations, requiring hardware investment and license management. SimScale runs entirely in your browser — no installation, no hardware constraints. You get access to scalable cloud computing for running multiple simulations in parallel, which dramatically accelerates design iteration. Teams can collaborate on the same project from anywhere.
Yes. SimScale’s Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) analysis calculates heat conduction through solid components and heat convection within the cooling fluid simultaneously, giving you accurate predictions of cold plate thermal performance under real operating conditions.
Yes. Improving heat transfer efficiency and lowering pressure drop are conflicting objectives. SimScale supports multi-objective optimization workflows with AI agent support to find the design sweet spot where your thermal requirements are met without exceeding pump power constraints.
SimScale covers Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT), incompressible and compressible CFD, static stress analysis, and thermal analysis. This multiphysics coverage lets you evaluate your cold plate’s thermal performance, pressure drop, flow distribution, and structural integrity in a single platform.
Yes. SimScale AI uses surrogate models and pre-trained foundation models to deliver performance predictions in seconds. You can explore thousands of design variants — varying channel geometries, fin configurations, and flow paths — and shortlist the best candidates before running full-fidelity CFD simulations.
Absolutely. SimScale’s multiphysics capabilities are well-suited for EV battery cold plate design where thermal management, pressure drop optimization, and temperature uniformity across battery cells are all critical. Customers like Rimac Automobili have used SimScale to accelerate electric vehicle battery thermal management development.
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