RadTherm is a professional thermal modeling tool intended for comprehensive heat management design and analysis. RadTherm is equipped with everything but your surface mesh: pre-processing for conductivity and mesh normals, boundary condition set-up, an optimized thermal solver, and post processor / results viewer. With minimal effort you can analyze conduction, multibounce radiation, and convection (steady-state or transient). All functions are integrated into one carefully designed graphical user interface allowing users to analyze designs very quickly and accurately. RadTherm's highly-optimized algorithms handle even the most complex thermal questions. Written entirely in portable C++, RadTherm maintains speed and file compatibility across platforms. A state-of-the-art voxel-based ray tracer is used to compute radiation view factors and solar projected (apparent) areas. This ray tracer provides the fastest radiation exchange solver on the market.

With RadTherm you can:

• Deliver solutions to comprehensive heat management problems: RadTherm is a professional thermal modeling program that predicts the full temperature distribution of your product or system. From these results you can modify your design and test the thermal response to the change. For example, active and passive cooling can be tested for cost-benefit analysis.
• Complete thermal solution: solve for conduction, radiation, and convection in both steady-state and transient conditions.
• State-of-the-art Speed: RadTherm is the industry benchmark for speed, accuracy, and flexibility. Faster setup and thermal analysis save you time and money. This translates into better customer focus and quicker time to market for you.
• Flexibility: Import your surface geometry and change designs with ease. Manipulate the geometry within RadTherm to improve your heat management design.
• Integrate with CFD: Seamless integration with CFD results from major CFD applications.

Products from Thermoanalytics

RadTherm

RadTherm is full-featured, cross-platform, thermal analysis software for system-level CAE applications. RadTherm utilizes a state-of-the-art Radiation Module and an extremely user friendly Graphical User Interface to set up boundary conditions for multi-mode heat transfer: multibounce radiation, conduction and convection with one-dimensional fluid flow. RadTherm has no limit to model resolution: model size is limited only by available system resources. Customers report modeling systems of several million thermal nodes. Boundary conditions for natural environments are easily imported from weather files and solar loads predicted from RadTherm's built-in solar model or applied from measurements. Examples of RadTherm applications would be complete vehicular systems, aerospace systems, electronic instrument panels, architectural solar analysis, and complex process heating schemes.

WinTherm

WinTherm is designed for component-level modeling and simulation and provides the user with a complete solution to thermal analysis for models up to 20,000 thermal nodes (typically 10,000 mesh elements). WinTherm runs under Windows 95/98/NT and UNIX and allows users from any engineering background (thermal or other) to analyze their components quickly and accurately. The intuitive arrangement of the user interface permits both novice and expert users to setup and analyze thermal systems with minimum input. Examples of WinTherm applications would be electronics enclosures, fluid tanks, or oven systems. Analysis of heat management techniques can be explored, such as insulated heat shields, cooling with fans, heatsinks or surface treatments.

WinTherm Lite

WinTherm Lite brings the power of high speed thermal modeling within the reach of small firms. Like our other thermal modeling codes, WinTherm Lite computes radiation, conduction, and convection, but WinTherm Lite is limited to models with less than 2,500 thermal nodes (typically 1,250 mesh elements). Because the Graphical User Interface is nearly identical to our more powerful software, model setup is rapid and WinTherm Lite users can easily upgrade to WinTherm or RadTherm without additional training.

WinTherm Pro

WinTherm Pro puts system-level modeling power into a small budget. WinTherm Pro delivers complete thermal analysis with resolution up to 64,000 thermal nodes (typically 32,000 mesh elements). WinTherm Pro users can easily upgrade to RadTherm without additional training.

RadTherm/RT

RadTherm/RT is an enhanced version of our RadTherm software for the purpose of predicting terrain temperatures, including roads and highways. TAI developed the software in conjunction with Montana State University. RadTherm/RT predicts and graphically displays road and surrounding terrain temperatures. Inputs into the software include a digital 3d-faceted terrain representation, spatial meteorological data, and scenario (time/location) information.

RadThermIR

RadThermIR software provides integrated thermal analysis and infrared signature prediction. Version 7.0 includes flat shaded BRDF rendering of radiosity. Users can explore thermal designs that will reduce the IR signature of their system against realistic backgrounds. By integrating thermal analysis with IR signature prediction, overall system performance can be enhanced early in the development cycle.

WiewTherm

ViewTherm is a free viewer which allows the user to post-process/view RadTherm or WinTherm files. ViewTherm does not perform any analysis: it is used to view the results from RadTherm or WinTherm.