Qfin 4.0

Heat PipesHeat Pipes

What is Qfin?

Qfin is a powerful simulation software tool that allows engineers to design, analyze, and optimize the thermal performance of electronic systems as well as individual components. The main focus is to perform detailed heat transfer and fluid flow simulations that can increase a product's quality and significantly reduce its time-to-market.

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What kind of problems can be solved?

Qfin is a total thermal management system that can be used to solve component-level, board-level, or system-level problems. It provides design engineers with the ability to test conceptual designs under operating conditions that might be impractical to duplicate with a physical model, and obtain data at locations that might otherwise be inaccessible for monitoring.

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What are the main features?

  • Very easy to use, with a multitude of step-by-step design wizards
  • Complete list of pre-defined components like heat sinks, fans, and TEC.
  • Fast, with solutions in minutes
  • Fans with non-linear fan curves.
  • Automatic design parameterization, using relative positioning.
  • Fully automatic meshing, with optional user control
  • Easy to use library system
  • Powerful yet easy to use design optimizer
  • Support for multiple fluids
  • Contact resistance modeling.
  • Radiation heat transfer and automatic view factor calculations.
  • Available in 3 editions, suited to different engineering needs.

Qfin4 is available in 3 editions:

Basic - Main Scope: Air cooled heat sink design and optimization

Standard - Main Scope: All heat sink and cold plate design and optimization including heat pipes

Advanced - Main Scope: System level design and optimization



Each edition has a specific target user group and price point.

    Basic Standard Advanced
Components Heat sinks Yes Yes Yes
  Heat Sources Yes Yes Yes
  Openings Yes Yes Yes
  Fans Yes Yes Yes
  Plates Yes Yes Yes
  Local Boundaries Yes Yes Yes
  Probes Yes Yes Yes
  Patterns Yes Yes Yes
  Cut-Out No Yes Yes
  Packages No Yes Yes
  Heat Pipes No Yes Yes
  Cold Plates No Yes Yes
  Blocks No No Yes
  Grills No No Yes
  PCB's No No Yes
  LED's No No Yes
  TEC No No Yes
  Heat Exchangers No No Yes
Fluids Incompressible Gas Yes Yes Yes
  Ideal Gas Yes Yes Yes
  Real Gas Yes Yes Yes
  Incompressible Liquids No Yes Yes
  Variable Liquids No Yes Yes
Features Parameterized Trials Yes Yes Yes
  Transient Solutions Yes Yes Yes
  Design Optimizer No Yes Yes