01 Your CAD, as exported
148 solids: connectors, pins, all of it.
A finite-volume conjugate heat transfer solver that solves the solid and the fluid together. Put in the losses, get out component temperatures, air velocities and the margin you actually have left.
Thermal management decides whether a converter meets its rating. Handbook heat-transfer coefficients cannot see the recirculation behind a fin stack or the shadowing between components; a 3D CFD solve can.
A 148-part controller board, dropped in as exported, simplified automatically and solved in still air. No manual cleanup, no meshing expertise.
148 solids: connectors, pins, all of it.
43 thermal parts, -0.5% exposed area.
85 °C hotspot in still air at 20 °C.
Board geometry: Olimex ESP32-POE2, open-source hardware (CERN-OHL-v2-S).
TRAFOLO Thermal runs a finite-volume CFD core with a long validation history across automotive, process and power engineering. You get that solver without the dictionary files.
Compare fin pitch, height and base thickness under the real flow regime instead of a catalogue thermal resistance.
Buoyancy-driven internal flow with radiation to the housing — the case where handbook correlations fail most often.
Fan placement, ducting and bypass. Find the components sitting in a dead zone before the thermal test does.
Resin, tape and interface layers as real solid regions, so the internal hot spot is resolved rather than assumed.
Channel geometry, flow rate and pressure drop against the temperature you need to hold at the die.
Board, copper layers and components as distinct solids, with the airflow around them resolved.
A magnetic component is an electromagnetic problem and a thermal problem at once. TRAFOLO gives each its own specialised application, so you can study the losses in one and the temperatures in the other.
Both applications run fully on-premises — models and results stay on your machines.
TRAFOLO Thermal licensing is arranged individually — tell us about your team and use case and we will put a proposal together.
Install it, load your own CAD and run a case. Fill in the form and the download link is emailed to you immediately.
The download link is emailed to you immediately.
Convective Heat Transfer Simulator
The download link is on its way to your address. It normally arrives within a minute.
Email info@trafolo.eu and we will send the installer straight to you.