Vozel Katja, Klinar Katja, Petelin Nada, Kitanovski Andrej
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Askerceva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
iScience. 2024 Oct 28;27(12):111263. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111263. eCollection 2024 Dec 20.
In the area of thermal management, thermal control elements (TCEs) and thermal control circuits (TCCs) are proving to be innovative solutions to the challenges of temperature control and heat dissipation in various applications, ranging from electronic cooling to energy conversion and temperature control in buildings. Their integration promises to improve power density, energy efficiency, system reliability and system life expectancy. With the aim of connecting researchers in the field of thermal management and accelerating the development of TCEs and TCCs, we have developed an open-source TCC simulation tool called TCCbuilder that enables a quick and easy time-dependent 1D numerical analysis of the behavior of TCEs and TCCs. It uses the heat conduction equation to solve temperature profiles in different devices. The TCCbuilder application offers features not previously available with any other TCC modeling tool: a large adjacent library of materials and TCEs as well as a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI).
在热管理领域,热控元件(TCE)和热控电路(TCC)被证明是应对各种应用中温度控制和散热挑战的创新解决方案,这些应用涵盖从电子冷却到能量转换以及建筑物温度控制等领域。它们的集成有望提高功率密度、能源效率、系统可靠性和系统预期寿命。为了连接热管理领域的研究人员并加速TCE和TCC的开发,我们开发了一种名为TCCbuilder的开源TCC仿真工具,该工具能够对TCE和TCC的行为进行快速且简便的一维时间相关数值分析。它使用热传导方程来求解不同设备中的温度分布。TCCbuilder应用程序提供了其他任何TCC建模工具都未曾具备的功能:大量相邻的材料和TCE库以及用户友好的图形用户界面(GUI)。