CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 October 2012
Product News
ThermoAnalytics releases RadTherm, RadThermIR, MuSES, and WinTherm version 10.4
ThermoAnalytics is proud to announce the release of RadTherm, RadThermIR, MuSES, and WinTherm version 10.4. Below is a list of some of the new features and enhancements that are available in this version.
Anisotropic Composites
Thermal simulation of layered anisotropic composites (e.g. carbon fiber) is now possible by defining a 'preferred direction' for each material layer within a composite layup. The user can define a 'primary preferred direction' for the top layer with angular offsets for each layer below. The offset is relative to the primary preferred direction, making it easy to redefine the overall direction of the layup while maintaining the composite structure.
NTG Equivalent Circuit Battery Model
The design of battery packaging and cooling systems can now be quickly optimized with high resolution models using the NTG Equivalent Circuit Battery Model. This model treats each cell as a simplified electrical circuit with power spatially distributed as an average value. This greatly accelerates the computation speed, allowing high geometric definition of mounting points along each cell, considered a critical design factor for thermal conduction effects. The increased resolution also permits rapid evaluation and refinement of pack- and vehicle-level cooling system designs.
CFD Manager
The new CFD Manager stores details about the source of imported CFD files, including time/date of import, and the settings that were used during the import process. The imported CFD records can be duplicated or deleted and the user can modify the assigned simulation time step or export the CFD settings file.
Thermal Reports
There have been several enhancements to the thermal reporting feature. First, is the ability to include animations within the thermal report and the animations will render off-screen for Windows and Linux systems. Second, an Annotations Tab has been developed for highlighting the maximum and minimum temperatures and heat rate values. The user is given four different independent modes to choose from: Global (includes everything), Geometry Only (includes everything from Global but omits non-geometry parts), Visible Geometry (includes everything from Geometry but omits the hidden parts), and Part Selection (includes everything from Visible but omits the non-selected parts). Lastly, a new option has been added to export results in either ASCII or CSV format.
Thermal Link Import/Export
Face-to-face and generic thermal links can both be imported or exported from a CSV file. Generic links can now be visualized in the graphics window.
Solution Acceleration
An advanced thermal solver option has been added which provides a solver trade-off between speed and stability. Maximum speed, which is the default option, uses a fast numerical solution method for shell elements. For a small number of models, this method may introduce some stability problems. The other option is Maximum Stability, which uses a more stable numerical solution that has been used in prior versions and can be selected if a model diverges.
Solution Initialization
If a model uses Seed Steady State Solution as the initialization method, the solution will automatically self-seed using the results of a prior analysis. If no results are present, the default initial temperatures will be used for initialization. The solver will also automatically use average part temperatures when seeding from a model having a different number of thermal nodes.
Compare Thermal Models
To assess the convergence of a model during a long simulation, a new preference option called Write Intermediate Results has been added. This option will save an additional TDF file with the current results during a solution after a user specified number of iterations. The Compare Thermal Results utility can also compute the temperature difference between two TDF files with thermal results, and output a TDF file with the temperature differences.
CFD Flow Velocity Import
A new option has been added to CFD Import to read flow velocity data from a Patran Neutral file, instead of heat transfer coefficients and fluid temperatures. The flow velocity magnitudes and directions can be visualized on the model within the graphics window. Flow velocity data will be imported to the Library Convection model on an element level, and will be used to compute local heat transfer coefficients which will be dynamically calculated based on the wall temperature and fluid temperature.
Ensight Export
An option is available within TDF Utility to write out results for volumetric solid mesh parts, readable by EnSight post-processing software.
Clothing Material Import
Clothing materials can be imported using an ASCII file and stored in the clothing database. This allows for improved setup of models using clothing data from test measurements.
User Defined Waterline
An option has been added to define the waterline of a ship during the Sea Model setup. By defining the waterline, the entire ship hull geometry can be used for renderings, and does not require any mesh modifications.
Sea Model Speed Up
Optimized calculation of sea surfaces to reduce rendering run times for the unstructured or structured sea models on Windows operating systems.
Old Graphics Rotation
An option has been added to the Preferences to Restrict YZ Rotation, which enables the graphics rotation method used in v10.0 and prior.
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