Thermal Desktop Description

Thermal Desktop is a complete model creation tool. Objects such as finite element, lumped capacitance, and built-in finite differences can be combined in any way. Thermal-specific objects, such as insulation, heat loads and heaters, can be added to any model, from automotive components to manned satellites. Thermal Desktop allows full parameterization by using variables and arbitrarily complicated expressions instead of hardwired numbers. These variables, also known as symbols, enable models to be quickly manipulated by a few keystrokes. This makes it easy to update or maintain the model, perform sensitivity studies, and investigate what-if scenarios. This gives you access to SINDA/FLUINT’s optimization and reliability modules, as well as automatic model correlation.

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Company Details

Company:
C&R Technologies
Year Founded:
1992
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
www.crtech.com/products/thermal-desktop

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Sr. Principal Engineer
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 20,000 or More
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    Doesn't compete well with Siemens Simcenter Thermal

    Edited: Nov 26 2023

    Summary: Totally frustrated with Thermal Desktop. And am upset at our incompetent thermal lead for selecting this software as there was nothing wrong with NX Thermal to begin with. Seems like 1-D and 2-D shell meshes are ideal for Thermal Desktop.

    Positive: Nothing positive as everything is negative compared to what I used before.

    Negative: Sorry, but Siemens Simcenter Thermal is by far a superior thermal analysis software. One can hope ANSYS can improve the thermal desktop products within Mechanical Desktop, but I highly doubt it. At our company we were forced to use Thermal Desktop after using NX Thermal for a couple years. Everything in NX is streamlined. You defeature in NX, go to the pre/post where you enter into NX Thermal, create an idealized part(basically a copy of te CAD), and you suppres curves/edges to mesh and then apply material properties, create advection network for the fem file. Also if there are mesh issues you can manually create elements if need be. Then you progress to the sim file where you apply contacts, bc's, map CFD results and setup the model to run.

    In Thermal Desktop we are forced to use ANSYS Spaceclaim to defeature and then link to Thermal Desktop to mesh through a "blackbox" where you can only control the mesh by apply mesh sizing. A total nightmare if the meshing fails.

    Also the graphics rendering is absolutely horrible for complex 3-D meshes. Using the space ball to rotate and translate mesh is excruciatingly slow. Opened up a fairly large mesh and just turning on/off layers took a couple hours.

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