Qfin 4.0
Heat 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.
Liquid Cooled Cold Plate
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.
PCB in Enclosure
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 |