Mechanical Analysis
The Mechanical Analysis Division of Mentor Graphics (formerly Flomerics) provides the world's most advanced computational fluid dynamics products. Our simulation software and consultancy services eliminate mistakes, reduce costs, and accelerate and optimize designs involving heat transfer and fluid flow before physical prototypes are built.
Design Areas
Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Simulate and analyze fluid flow and heat transfer quicker and easier with FloEFD Engineering Fluid Dynamics simulation software, which can be fully embedded into your mechanical CAD environment.
- On-demand Web Seminar: Boeing 757 Air Flow Analysis
Electronics Cooling
FloTHERM thermal analysis software and MicReD thermal characterization products and services help leading electronics companies around the world create faster, more reliable, and more profitable electronics products.
- Product Demo: Introduction to FloTHERM
Building Heating and Ventilation
Optimize airflow, temperature distribution, and contamination control in and around buildings and vehicles with FloVENT airflow modeling software. Our Data Center cooling simulation tools lead the industry.
Techpubs and Resources
Mechanical Analysis Techpubs
Electro-Thermal Modeling of a Large-Surface OLED
techpub: This paper presents the development of the electro-thermal model of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) devices for circuit-level simulation. The model is based on I-V measurements at ten different temperatures... View Techpub
Power LED Electrical, Thermal and Optical Characterization
techpub: The focus of this paper is a combined electrical, thermal and optical characterization of power LED assemblies. Thermal management play important role in case of power LEDs, necessitating both physical... View Techpub
Thermal Measurement and Modeling of Multi-Die Packages
techpub: The paper gives an overview of thermal measurement and modeling techniques and results for stacked and MCM structures. Results for an opto-coupler device with 4 chips mounted in a combined lateral and vertical... View Techpub
Customer Success: Schüco International
Schüco International, one of the leading producers of photovoltaic panels uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to redesign its photovoltaic panels so they more efficiently utilize natural convection to cool themselves. Schüco International
From the Blogs
“All models are wrong, but some are useful” Part V
A variant on the original G. E. Box quote is: “Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful”. For electronics cooling simulation that really…View Blog Post
The Heat is On
It’s been hot in London this past week – we’re expecting a high of 33C or 90F+ today (despite my living here for a few years I still don’t understand Celsius and often find myself doing mental arithmetic…View Blog Post