The course is designed in such a way that both engineers with hardly any thermal knowledge and engineers with many years of thermal experience can benefit.
On four different moments during the course, the participant can choose to deepen understanding of the presented material OR to do a hands-on application exercise on an industry relevant example. The four choice modules are:
- Exercises on fundamentals of heat transfer using the electrothermal analogue OR advanced heat transfer
- Exercises on heating & fan cooling OR advanced thermal characterisation
- How to do numerical analysis OR advanced numerical analysis
- How to do measurements OR advanced measurement
Day 1, AM:
- Conduction -, convection - and radiation heat transfer
- Choice module 1
- Heat spreading
Day 1, PM:
- Heating & Cooling
- Fan cooling
- Reliability issues
- Specifications and thermal requirements
- Thermal characterisation
- Choice module 2
Day 2, AM:
- Thermal way of working
- Thermal rules-of-thumb
- Hand calculations
- Heat sink exercise
Day 2, PM:
- Problem solving example
- Sources of information
- Numerical analysis
- Choice module 3
- Measurement techniques
- Choice module 4
Day 3, AM:
- Cooling solutions
- Liquid cooling
- Advanced cooling technologies
Day 3, PM:
- Case study