Thermal calculation using a 3D-EM solver and thermal-electrical analogy

Author

Nistal-Gonzalez, I. ; Bettray, A. ; Maulwurf, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Antennas & EM Modelling, IMST GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

26-30 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a steady state thermal simulation approach is implemented, which makes use of a conventional electromagnetic simulator in order to take advantage of the existing software. To solve the problem, the thermal-electrical analogy will be taken into account, including conduction, convection and radiation. Empire XCcel™ along with a script implemented in Python have been used to simulate the built prototypes. The validation of the proposed method has been carried out with an infra-red camera.

Keywords

computational electromagnetics; convection; heat conduction; heat radiation; infrared imaging; thermal analysis; thermal management (packaging); 3D-EM solver; Empire XCcel; Python; built prototypes; conventional electromagnetic simulator; heat conduction; heat convection; heat radiation; infrared camera; steady state thermal simulation approach; thermal calculation; thermal-electrical analogy; Electronic packaging thermal management; Heat sinks; Heating; Temperature measurement; Thermal analysis; Thermal conductivity; Thermal resistance; EM simulation; Thermal simulation; conduction; convection; radiation; thermal-electrical analogy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0918-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0919-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206535

Filename

6206535