Engineer’s Guide to Simulating Electronics Cooling: eBook
The article discusses the importance of electronics cooling in the design process due to rising power densities and shrinking form factors. It emphasizes the need for early prediction and resolution of cooling issues to prevent hotspots, reliability issues, and costly redesigns. The eBook provides guidance on modeling conduction, convection, and radiation in electronics, calculating junction temperature, passive vs. active cooling strategies, ECAD/MCAD integration, setting boundary conditions, steady-state vs. transient thermal analysis, liquid cooling simulation, hotspot identification, and design optimization workflows. The focus is on using intelligent thermal simulation to address overheating PCBs, airflow bottlenecks, and long thermal simulation runtimes.