MSC TFEA
Everything a thermal engineer needs

MSC TFEA couples the power and flexibility of the MSC Sinda thermal analysis system with the comprehensive features of the CAE modeler Patran into a cost-effective, fully integrated environment. These design tools are tailored to the needs of a thermal engineer. TFEA includes a full-featured Sinda thermal analyzer, a thermal version of Patran, the Sinda to Patran plug-in for seamless integration of the two, the SindaRad view factor radiation solver, and the Patran Exchange Package for direct access to several popular types of CAD and CAE models.

MSC TFEA Benefits

• Comprehensive system of thermal design tools
• Sinda uses resistance-capacitance network approach for intuitive designing.
• Quickly solves large thermal problems having a variety of material, property, and boundary conditions
• Models problems in the user-friendly Patran environment
• Allows user-defined time, temperature, and spatially dependent complex expressions and subroutines
• Supports thermal distortion and thermal stress analysis by passing temperatures to a structural model
• TFEA transparently integrates with SindaRad, NEVADA, THERMICA, TSS, and TRASYS
• Imports geometry from several popular CAD/CAE systems

Benefits of SindaRad

• Based on technology developed by Sandia National Labs
• Can run radiation models with over 100,000 surfaces
• Reduces time required to compute view factors, translate models, and pre-process models. In the time TRASYS takes to generate view factors for 3500 surfaces, SindaRad computes view factors for 35,000 surfaces.
• Reduced time allows additional test cases to run without slipping the schedule
• Uses heat flux method to reduce both model size and computer memory requirements
• Displays view factor and radiation factor results graphically for ease of understanding
• Utilizes an intuitive full Windows GUI to help shorten the learning curve
• SindaRad solves multiple enclosure radiation problems.

MSC TFEA Applications

• Aerospace: spacecraft, missile systems, aircraft, turbine engines, nacelles, thrust reversers, satellites
• Automotive: engine cooling, electronics, environment control, solar heating of dashboard, drive train, exhaust systems, fuel cells, thermal hydraulics, heating and A/C
• Electronics: commercial electronics, avionics, military electronics, spacecraft electronics
• Manufacturing/Process: semiconductor processing equipment, furnaces, power plants, solar and green energy systems, fuel cells for power generation, glass production, petrochemical plants, HVAC for buildings, lamps and lamp housings