NX Advanced Thermal: Extend thermal analysis solutionsNX CAE
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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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