The thermal management facility is designed to provide customers with the ability to model, design, develop and qualify successful cooling strategies for their products.  Additionally the lab is designed to quickly and accurately diagnose any potential thermal problems an existing product may have. 

Our goal is to identify, mitigate, and solve thermal issues by the first prototype state of product development and to subsequently verify the solution by production.  The primary goal is to provide customers with a thermal solution that will not require changes once production on a product design cycle has reached manufacturing.  Cost impact to perform this type of work during the design phase is minimal when compared to product production ECO costs that may be required to correct thermal problems on products already deployed in the field.

The thermal management and design services group at IQS is capable of analyzing, designing, and providing a complete thermal solution for the project.  The customer can utilize either or both the CFD analysis & design and experimental testing.

CFD Analysis and Design

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a powerful fluid mechanics and heat transfer solver to predict temperatures, velocities, and pressures within the modeled product. Whether it is an individual component, board, or computer chassis, CFD Analysis and Design will provide the thermal engineering support and solution for your product.

Any fluid flow and/or heat transfer problem can be analyzed and effective design solutions will be provided. These problems may include steady state, transient, convection, conduction, radiation, incompressible fluids, single-phase fluids, laminar, and turbulent flow regimes.

Experimental Testing

Experimental testing is a critical step in verifying thermal analysis and design models. Our experimental tools include wind tunnels, airflow sensing equipment, temperature sensors, walk-in environmental chambers, airflow test chambers and acoustics.