Thermal Management Solutions | Expert Thermal Analysis Services.
Quartus has extensive experience and capabilities in the area of thermal design, management, and analysis. Steady-state & transient heat transfer, coupled CFD/thermal, thermal distortion, and STOP (structural/ thermal/optical) analyses are core strengths of our analysis group.
THERMAL APPLICATIONS
The analysis group at Quartus has experience performing thermal analysis and solving challenging thermal management problems for a wide range of applications and industries. Common projects and industries include:
- Electronics cooling
- Free & forced convection
- Steady-state & transient
- Spacecraft electronics
- Military Environments
- Ground & airborne systems
- On-orbit thermal (orbit & radiation modeling)
- Spacecraft-level & payload-level programs, including cryogenic systems
- External aerodynamics & aero-heating
- STOP analysis
- Thermal management & performance analysis for optical components and systems
- System pointing, surface distortion, Zernike fits, stress birefringence, thermo-optic effects, etc.
- Advanced energy systems
- Consumer electronics
- Ground-based telescopes & observatory enclosures
SOFTWARE TOOLS
Quartus maintains and has extensive experience with a suite of advanced software tools for thermal analysis.
- MAYA/ESC
- Electronics cooling, coupled CFD/thermal
- MAYA/TMG
- Radiation modeling, on-orbit thermal, simplistic convection models, coupled simulations with ESC
- Thermal Desktop (SINDA/FLUINT)
- Full-purpose code, Spacecraft on-orbit thermal, radiation modeling
- STAR-CCM+
- Complex thermal/CFD problems, multi-physics, aero-heating
- Nastran, Abaqus, & ANSYS
- Thermal distortion, heat transfer problems
- Quartus STOP Toolkit
- Extensive internal Matlab tool for optical performance analysis