Overview
Electronics Cooling & PCB Thermal Simulation and Analysis
Ansys Icepak offers robust electronic cooling solutions powered by the renowned Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver. It enables comprehensive thermal and fluid flow analyses of integrated circuits (ICs), packages, printed circuit boards (PCBs), and electronic assemblies. Leveraging the Ansys Electronics Desktop (AEDT) graphical user interface (GUI), the Ansys Icepak CFD solver ensures seamless navigation and intuitive operation.
- Unstructured, Body-fitted Meshing: Achieve optimized meshing for accurate simulations and analyses.
- Comprehensive Thermal Reliability Solution: Address thermal reliability challenges effectively with Ansys Icepak’s comprehensive suite of tools.
- High-fidelity CFD Solver: Benefit from high-fidelity simulations powered by the industry-leading CFD solver.
- Industry-Leading Multiscale Multiphysics: Uncover intricate multiscale multiphysics phenomena with Ansys Icepak’s advanced capabilities.
Product Specs
Perform conduction, convection and radiation conjugate heat transfer analyses, with many advanced capabilities to model laminar and turbulent flows, and species analysis including radiation and convection.
What's New
January 2024 Release
Introduction of Thermal Mesh Fusion
Thermal Mesh fusion enables automated partitioning of the target geometry into subdomains of similarity and then applies the most appropriate mesher to the subdomain. These are then re-combined.
Fluent's GPU solver for Icepak
By enabling Fluent’s GPU solver, Icepak can now employ multiple GPUs to accelerate simulation in HPC/Distributed Computing environments by up to 70x.
Applications
PCBs, ICs and IC packages
Ansys’ complete PCB design solution enables you to simulates PCBs, ICs, and packages and accurately evaluate an entire system.
Electronics Reliability
Learn how Ansys integrated electronics reliability tools can help you solve your biggest thermal, electrical and mechanical reliability challenges.
Batteries
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Electric Motors
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Capabilities
Optimizing Electronics Thermal Management with Ansys Icepak
Key Features
Ansys Icepak includes all modes of heat transfer — conduction, convection and radiation — for steadystate and transient electronics cooling applications.
- Electronics Desktop 3D layout GUI
- DC joule heating analysis
- Multiple-fluid analysis
- Reduced order flow and thermal
- Thermo-electric cooler modeling
- Package characterization
- Integrated graphical modeling environment
Electrothermal Analysis of a PCB
Heat can degrade the performance and reliability of electronic devices. Power dissipation of ICs and power losses across the board are key inputs for thermal analysis.
Electronics Cooling
Ansys leads the industry in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions for electronics cooling. Their integrated workflow, coupled with chip-level thermal integrity simulation software, enables precise thermal analysis for chip-package, PCB, and system designs.
Thermal Reliability
Tight integration with SIwave, Ansys Mechanical, and Sherlock enables Ansys Icepak to accurately predict temperature rises and ensures thermal reliability. Seamlessly conduct multi-physics analyses for electromigration, dielectric breakdown, and solder joint fatigue within the Ansys ecosystem.