Define realistic heat loads and boundary conditions.
Steady-state or transient conduction
Modelling & Data · Numerical Modeling
Thermal Analysis
Thermal analysis predicts steady-state or transient temperature, heat flux, thermal resistance, and thermal expansion for components, assemblies, or processes. Radiation, convection, contacts, and temperature-dependent…
- Price
- Request a quote Confirmed after technical review
- Turnaround
- Confirmed after project review Confirmed after technical review
- Typical outputs
- Temperature distributionsHeat flux and thermal resistanceWarm-up or cool-down curves
Why this service
What Thermal Analysis can help you understand
Thermal analysis predicts steady-state or transient temperature, heat flux, thermal resistance, and thermal expansion for components, assemblies, or processes. Radiation, convection, contacts, and…
Distinguish local hot spots from mesh or contact artefacts.
Convection and conjugate heat transfer
Connect temperature predictions to material and reliability limits.
Radiation, thermal contact, and thermal-stress coupling
Choose the scope
Start from the question, not the tool
The method, preparation route and reporting depth depend on what you need to decide.
Steady-state or transient conduction
Define realistic heat loads and boundary conditions.
- Best used when
- Define realistic heat loads and boundary conditions.
- Typical result
- Temperature distributions
- Preparation note
- Declare confidentiality, file, access or delivery constraints in advance.
Convection and conjugate heat transfer
Distinguish local hot spots from mesh or contact artefacts.
- Best used when
- Distinguish local hot spots from mesh or contact artefacts.
- Typical result
- Heat flux and thermal resistance
- Preparation note
- Declare confidentiality, file, access or delivery constraints in advance.
Radiation, thermal contact, and thermal-stress coupling
Connect temperature predictions to material and reliability limits.
- Best used when
- Connect temperature predictions to material and reliability limits.
- Typical result
- Warm-up or cool-down curves
- Preparation note
- Declare confidentiality, file, access or delivery constraints in advance.
Common outputs
A result package matched to the decision you need to make
Fields, conditions, processing and file formats are confirmed before work begins.
A representative output from Thermal Analysis with agreed units, labels, and revision status.
Checks, tolerances, convergence, uncertainty, or inspection evidence appropriate to the service.
A concise interpretation connecting the deliverable to the customer decision.
Input requirements
What to provide before work begins
Provide representative, clearly labelled inputs and identify the decision, feature or comparison that matters.
| Suitable input | Submission requirement | Planning note |
|---|---|---|
| Project input or design file | Provide the current design, objective, constraints and required deliverables for technical review. | Declare confidentiality, file, access or delivery constraints in advance. |
Objective: state the decision, comparison or acceptance criterion the work must support.
Handling and access: declare hazards, instability, confidentiality, file constraints or special logistics before dispatch or transfer.
Questions and answers
Common planning decisions
Short answers to issues that can change preparation, scope, timing or interpretation.
What inputs are needed for Thermal Analysis?
A clean CAD model or dimensioned geometry, with the required units and coordinate system.
Which service option should I choose?
Start with Steady-state or transient conduction; the final option is confirmed against the required decision and acceptance criteria.
What will I receive?
Typical outputs include temperature distributions, heat flux and thermal resistance, warm-up or cool-down curves. Final files follow the confirmed reporting scope.
How long will it take?
Delivery timing is confirmed after the project inputs, scope and dependencies have been reviewed.
Request a project quotation
Send the information needed to scope Thermal Analysis correctly
- Current design, files, inputs and constraints
- Feature or decision the result must address
- Required comparison, acceptance criterion or reference
- Preferred output and reporting depth