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Old   January 12, 2013, 11:25
Default Modeling heat sink?
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Hi,

I am wondering if someone here can suggest an approach for modeling heat sinks.

Ideally, we want to have at lest 3 cells across the gaps between 2 fins. However, this usually requires significant number of cells to be generated. If one can uses hex element, then, maybe one can use higher aspect ratio for the cells, hence smaller cell counts. But, this will be a very tedious job, and Autodesk CFD probably only supports tet element I believe.

Any suggestion?

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