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Benefits• ExtendthermalsolutioncapabilitiesinNXThermalandNXElectronicSystemsCooling

• Solvecomplexheattransferphenomenawithacomprehensivesetofmodelingtools

• Reducecostlyphysicalprototypesandproductdesignriskthroughhighfidelitythermalsimulation

• Gainfurtherinsightthroughcoupledthermo-fluidmulti-physicsanalysisusingNXAdvancedThermalwithNXFloworNXAdvancedFlow

• LeverageallthecapabilitiesoftheNXintegratedenvironmenttomakequickdesignchangesandproviderapidfeedbackonthermalperformance

SummaryNX™AdvancedThermalsoftwareextendsthemodelingandsimulationcapabilitiesofNXThermalorNXElectronicSystemsCooling.NXAdvancedThermalprovidesawiderangeofmethodsforadvancedradiationanalysis,radiativeandelectricalheatingmodels,advancedmaterialsmodelssuchasphasechange,charringandablation,aswellasone-dimensionalhydraulicnetworkmodeling.Thermo-fluidcouplingisenabledwithNXFlowandNXAdvancedFlow,andthermo-elasticeffectscanbesimulatedbymappingtemperatureresultstoNXNastran®.

NXAdvancedThermalcontinuesSiemens’longheritageinthermalsimulationandleveragesthesametechnologythatunderpinnedtheI-deasTMGsolution.NXAdvancedThermaladdsarichfeaturesettothepowerfulsimulationtechnologyofNXThermal.Intendedfortacklingcomplexthermalphysicsandchallengingthermalmanagementproblems,NXAdvancedThermaloffersthesamebest-in-classlevelofintegrationwithintheNXpreprocessing,postprocessingandsimulationtools.

ApplicationsofNXAdvancedThermalincludesimulationandanalysisofarangeofheattransferproblemsinaerospace,automotive,electronics,power,processandotherindustries.NXAdvancedThermaloffersthefollow-ingadditionalfeaturesontopoftheNXThermallicense.

Advanced thermal couplings• Perfectcontact• One-wayconductances• Freeandforcedcorrelation-basedconvectioncouplings

• Convectivegapcouplings• User-definedcouplings• Cyclicsymmetrycouplings

Articulation and motion modeling• Anycombinationoftranslationalmotionandrotationaljoints

• Time-dependentradiationandthermalcouplings

• Postprocessingofarticulatedmesh• SolidMotionEffectstoolsetwhichincludesarticulationandspinningeffects

Thermal control devices• Peltiercoolermodels• Activeheatercontrollers,PIDcontrollers

Open architecture• Fullaccesstothermalsystemequations• Incorporationofexternalmodels• Enhancedsolutioncontrol• Usersubroutinesforintegrationofcustomcodeinthesolutionsequence

Parallelized radiation solver• Parallelviewfactorcalculationsandflexiblethermalsolvermulti-threadingbasedonthenumberofavailablecoresforsolutionefficiency

• TheNXAdvancedThermalproductincludesaccesstoupto8coresononemachineforthesupportedsolvermodules

• TheavailableNXThermal/FlowDMPadd-onremovesanysoftwarelimitationsonthenumberofcoresandenablesnetworkandclustersupport

• Distributedmemory(MPI)basedparallelizationforhighlyscalablecomputationofviewfactorsandradiativeheating–availablewiththeNXThermal/FlowDMPadd-on

Supported hardware/OSNXAdvancedThermalisanadd-onmoduletoeitherNXAdvancedFEMorNXAdvancedSimulation.ItrequiresalicenseofNXThermalasaprerequisite.AllstandardNXhardware/OSplatformsaresupported(includingWindows,Linuxandselected64-bitplatforms).ContactSiemensPLMSoftwareforanyotherspecifichardware/OSsupportrequests.

Advanced optical properties• Specularreflectivity,diffuseandnon-diffusetransmissivity,indexofrefraction,solidabsorption

• Direction-dependentopticalproperties,BRDF

• Wavelength-dependentpropertiesfornongrayanalysis

Advanced material models• Ablationandcharringmodels• ElectricalresistivityandJouleheating

Advanced radiation methods• DeterministicandMonteCarloraytracing

• Nongraymultibandradiativeheattransfer

Radiative heating• Solarheatingwithatmosphericattenuationandalbedofluxmodels

• Radiativesourcedefinition,collimatedordiffuse,spectrum-dependent,timeandspatiallyvaryingflux

1D hydraulic network modeling • 1Dflowmodelingusingductnetworks• Abilitytosimulateconvectiontoandfrom1Dductnetworks

• Filmcoolingmodel• Linearorexponentialadvectiondiscretization

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NX Advanced Thermal: Extend thermal analysis solutions

You can conduct coupled thermo-flow analysis without the need to transfer data between multiple software tools.

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