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:

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• 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.

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• 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, simpler heat transfer problems

• Quartus STOP Toolkit

  • Extensive internal Matlab tool for optical performance analysis