Components

The MapleSim Heat Transfer Library includes a variety of components to cover common situations as well as custom geometries and materials, including:

• Basic: Model basic heat and thermal components, such as heat capacitor, thermal conductor, heat convection, and heat radiation; and model moving boundaries using heat contact and heat routing
• Boundaries: Define heat flow and temperature
• Multiple: Combine multiple basic thermal components
• Nodes: Model generic nodes, consisting of heat capacitors and thermal conductors, in various 2-D and 3-D shapes, such as cuboid, cylindrical, ring, and ring sector
• Properties: Select or define the thermal properties of standard materials
• Routing: Manage the routing between thermal connections
• Sensors: Monitor heat flow and temperature
• Shapes: Model generic ideal thermal conductor solids in 2-D and 3-D, such as cuboid, cylindrical, or ring shapes, using multiple nodes

Typical Use Cases

The MapleSim Heat Transfer Library is useful for any situation where heat generation is a concern. The highly complex geometries embodied in your CAD model often provide so much information that it becomes impossible to simulate heat transfer during system-level explorations. The MapleSim Heat Transfer Library allows you to represent your design using simpler, but sufficient, geometries inside a full system-level model, so it becomes feasible to explore the heat transfer effects in your model and improve your design. Here are just some of the situations where you will find this library helpful:

• You want to experiment with changes to your design, and your FEA or Excel^® tool takes too long to run the number of simulations you need to explore your design space.
• You want to analyze the temperature distribution of your design while still in the conceptual design phase, using system-level simulation.
• You need to simulate transient thermal behavior, moving boundaries, and the effects of changing heat generation on other components, such as motors and brake discs.

Are you facing challenges with heat generation in your models? We can help! Contact the Maplesoft Engineering Solutions team.