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An AltaSim Thanksgiving

By Brent Long | November 27, 2013
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AltaSim has much to be Thankful for.   As we approach Thanksgiving, all of us at AltaSim decided to share […]

SpaceClaim Equals Frustration Management

By Brent Long | November 21, 2013
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Can SpaceClaim Provide Frustration Management?   In all our years of doing analysis, we have discovered that waiting can be […]

Improved Thermal Analysis for Electronics Cooling

By Jeffrey Crompton | November 11, 2013
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So far we have explored preliminary ways to predict the temperatures in a circuit using simple thermal resistance network calculations. […]

Create The Future Design Contest Winners – 2013

By Brent Long | October 28, 2013
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Create The Future Design Contest Winners   Congratulations to all the winners from this year’s Create the Future Design Contest. […]

Ohio Supercomputer Brings Better, Stronger, Faster… Simulations!

By Brent Long | September 26, 2013
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154,000,000,000,000 Reasons   Back in July, we posted a Blog announcing Third Frontier Commission Invests in Ohio Businesses. Just recently, […]

MEMS Energy Harvester for Reusing Waste Heat

By Kyle Koppenhoefer | September 24, 2013
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During our recent webinar with COMSOL on thermal-structure interaction modeling, we at AltaSim Technologies demonstrated modeling of a MEMS energy […]

Estimating heat transfer coefficients

By Jeffrey Crompton | September 16, 2013
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Previously we have discussed ways to complete a feasibility thermal management analysis. For a given thermal budget, we want to […]

COMSOL Tips & Tricks

By Brent Long | September 9, 2013
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Decrease Total RAM Required to Solve Sequentially Coupled Multiphysics problems. Another COMSOL Tips & Tricks Deposit:   Are you solving […]

FEA (Finite Element Analysis) – Critical Questions to Ask

By Brent Long | August 23, 2013
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FEA (Finite Element Analysis) – Critical Questions to Ask Jack Thornton, MINDFEED Marcomm, wrote an excellent article on FEA that […]

Thermal Resistance Networks: Application

By Jeffrey Crompton | August 5, 2013
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In an earlier blog the thermal resistance network shown in Figure 1 was developed. Figure 1: The heat dissipation paths […]