Icepak Getting Started Guides

Icepak documentation includes the following Getting Started Guide:

• Getting Started with Icepak - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running an Icepak simulation:
  • Setting up project options and settings
  • Creating and assigning materials
  • Assigning boundary conditions
  • Creating mesh regions and setting global mesh settings
  • Creating solution monitors
  • Adding a solution setup and running the simulation
  • Creating post-processing objects
  • Creating a fields summary report
  • Creating variables and running a design of experiments
• Classic Icepak File Conversion - This guides you through opening a Classic Icepak project and reviews how the following project elements are represented in the Electronics Desktop:
  • Geometry and Boundary Conditions
  • Global Mesh Settings
  • Mesh Regions
  • Monitors
  • Design Settings and Solution Setup
  • Design Variables and Parametric Setup
  • Postprocessing
  • Fields Summary Report
• Getting Started with Icepak - Coil and Plate - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running an Icepak simulation:
  • Setting up a project for Maxwell-Icepak coupling
  • Assigning boundary conditions
  • Adding a solution setup and running the simulation
  • Creating post-processing objects
  • Creating a fields summary report
• Getting Started with Icepak - Waveguide Filter - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running an Icepak simulation:
  • Setting up a project for HFSS-Icepak coupling
  • Assigning boundary conditions
  • Adding a solution setup and running the simulation
  • Creating post-processing objects
  • Creating a fields summary report
• Getting Started with Icepak - Transient Simulation - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running a transient Icepak simulation:
  • Selecting the Transient solution type
  • Reviewing a dataset
  • Assigning a piecewise linear transient power to a block boundary condition
  • Reviewing transient solve setup options
  • Monitoring a transient simulation
  • Post-processing transient simulation results
• Selecting the Transient solution type
• Reviewing a dataset
• Assigning a piecewise linear transient power to a block boundary condition
• Reviewing transient solve setup options
• Monitoring a transient simulation
• Post-processing transient simulation results
• Getting Started with Icepak - Toolkits - This guides you through the following tasks involved with using Icepak toolkits:
  • Accessing Icepak toolkits
  • Creating a package using a toolkit
  • Solving the model and extracting the JB theta value using a toolkit
• Getting Started with Icepak - LTI ROM - This guides you through the following tasks involved with using the LTI ROM toolkit and couple with Twin Builder:
  • Assign boundary conditions.
  • Create an LTI ROM and run a parametric setup.
  • Export the LTI ROM .
  • Use the LTI ROM to prepare and run a Twin Builder analysis.
• Getting Started with Icepak - LPV ROM - This guides you through the following tasks involved with using the LPV ROM toolkit and couple with Twin Builder:
  • Assign boundary conditions.
  • Create an LPV ROM and run a parametric setup.
  • Export the LPV ROM .
  • Use the LPV ROM to prepare and run a Twin Builder analysis.
• Getting Started with Icepak - Scripting Example - This guides you through the following tasks involved with using Icepak scripting commands:
  • Solving the Graphics Card model.
  • Recording a script that includes creating a plane, plotting temperature data, and exporting an image.
  • Editing the script to produce additional planes, field plots, and images.
• Getting Started with Icepak - Finned Heat Sink - This guides you through the following tasks involved with modeling a finned heat sink:
  • Create a new project.
  • Create a model using geometry and thermal boundary conditions.
  • Generate a mesh
  • Set up a simulation with various physical conditions and parameters, including turbulence.
  • Calculate and monitor a solution.
  • Post-process the results by plotting field overlays
• Getting Started with Icepak - RF Amplifier - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running an Icepak simulation:
  • Create a new project.
  • Create a model using openings, fans, sources, blocks, heat sinks, and walls.
  • Set up a simulation with various physical conditions and parameters, including turbulence and natural convection.
  • Calculate and monitor a solution.
  • Post-process the results by plotting field overlays.
• Getting Started with Icepak - Optimization of Fan Location - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running an Icepak simulation:
  • Create a new project.
  • Create a model using grilles, fans, sources, blocks, networks, heat sinks, and walls.
  • Assign mesh regions and generate a mesh.
  • Set up and run parametric files using a variable for fan location.
  • Post-process the results by plotting field overlays.
• Getting Started with Icepak - Cold Plate Model - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running an Icepak simulation:
  • Use a mesh region and mesh operation to mesh complicated model setups
  • Use multiple fluids in a single model.
  • Account for external natural convection and internal forced convection.
  • Create mesh regions to reduce the overall mesh count.
  • Specify per-object meshing parameters.
• Getting Started with Icepak - Heat Pipe Model - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running an Icepak simulation:
  • Create anisotropic solid materials.
  • Assign materials to simulate a simplified heat-pipe in a system.
  • Assign nested non-conformal mesh regions.
  • Add a solution setup and run the simulation.
  • Create temperature and velocity vector field plots.
• Getting Started with Icepak - Non-Conformal Mesh - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running an Icepak simulation:
  • Generate a non-conformal mesh and related parameters such as slack values and maximum element sizes.
  • Understand the effects of a non-conformal mesh on total mesh count and results.
  • Generate and compare summary reports.
  • Apply non-conformal rules and restrictions.
• Getting Started with Icepak - Extract Delphi Network - This guides you through the following tasks involved with running an Icepak simulation:
  • Use Icepak's QFN toolkit to create a QFN package.
  • Use the Extract Delphi Network to generate an optimized compact thermal model (CTM) 3D component, which can be used to replace a detailed thermal model (DTM) in a system-level design to reduce mesh size and simulation duration, while yielding accurate thermal results.
• Icepak - Mechanical Coupling: Structural Solution – Power Resistor - This guide describes how to construct, set up, and solve two designs with an identical power resistor:
  • An Icepak design (specifically, a steady-state thermal analysis) in which the resistor body is a heat source, air movement removes heat, and a fixed temperature is assigned to the face of the solder joints (where they would contact a circuit board trace).
  • A Mechanical – Structural design which imports the temperature results from the Icepak design and determines the resultant thermal stresses and displacements.

  By following the steps in this guide, you will learn how to perform the following thermal analysis tasks in Ansys Electronics Desktop:

  • Insert an Icepak and a Mechanical design
  • Choose the Structural solution type for the Mechanical design
  • Set the model units
  • Create the power resistor geometry in Mechanical
  • Specify component names, materials, and colors
  • Copy geometry to Icepak
  • Assign thermal sources in Icepak
  • Assign thermal openings in Icepak
  • Adjust the air region size in Icepak
  • Solve the Icepak analysis and review the temperature results
  • Assign fixed supports in Mechanical
  • Assign a non-uniform thermal condition in Mechanical, linking to the Icepak results
  • Solve the Mechanical – Structural analysis
  • Compare imported temperatures in Mechanical to Icepak temperature results
  • Create and animate a displacement magnitude overlay
  • Create an equivalent stress overlay in Mechanical
  • Define a clipping plane to see the internal stresses