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.

FloEFD

Tightly integrated with major MCAD systems including Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, and CATIA, FloEFD is fully-featured 3D fluid flow and heat transfer analysis software without the numerical complexity and meshing overhead of traditional CFD. FloEFD

FloTHERM

FloTHERM is a powerful 3D computational fluid dynamics software that predicts airflow and heat transfer in and around electronic equipment, including the coupled effects of conduction, convection and radiation. FloTHERM

Thermal Limits of Flip Chip Package - Experimentally Validated

techpub: This paper examines the thermal performance limits of a flip chip package. A PGA package with Direct Chip Attach (DCA) interconnect was chosen to demonstrate the approach. View Techpub

FloEFD for Pro/ENGINEER

Product Demo: This web demo shows the use of the FloEFD program for Pro/ENGINEER View Product Demo

CFD in the Data Center

On-demand Web Seminar: See how FloVENT CFD software simulates air flow for data center design, including the data hall and sub-systems. View On-demand Web Seminar

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.

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.

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

Robin Bornoff's blog

“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

CFD doesn’t mean Color For Directors

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

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