Heat simulation in electrical/mechanical engineering

[Ash.K]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone uses simulation software's to tackle the heat related issues in electrical/mechanical engineering?

Regards

 

[russ_watters]

Welcome to PF!

This question is very vague, so I would have to just answer yes. If you ask a more specific question, I may be able to provide a more specific answer.

 

[Ash.K]

Welcome to PF!

This question is very vague, so I would have to just answer yes. If you ask a more specific question, I may be able to provide a more specific answer.

Hi Russ,
Thanks for your reply. I am having a lot of thermal cracks on alumina substrates during furnace firing/cooling of conductor/dielectric pastes. So, I wanted to know if there were any software's that could be used to simulate the issue. I have used ANSYS Fluent for simulation of wire annealing but since my company don't have a license for it, I was trying to learn if there are any other software's that can be used. i.e OpenFOAM?