Joule Heating in Flotherm
 

Hello Everyone,

I'm looking for some guidance to do some joule heating analysis. Particularly interested in the PCB due to the high power density in the board. It is a high heat dissipating system (> 500W) cooled with forced convection. The PCB has 20+ layers.

1. I'm facing some challenges in importing the power map into the Flotherm since the EE team uses ANSYS SI wave. Is there a way to make the output file from ANSYS to be compatible with Flotherm ?

2. If the above mentioned option is not possible, is other way to model the power map ?

3. While processing the layers in FLOEDA, what are some recommendations to resolve the layers ?

Happy New Year!