Design Services

ThermAvant works with businesses and agencies to design, analyze, fabricate, and/or test custom thermal solutions to meet their challenging requirements.

Our team of researchers, engineers, and technicians have decades of experience in: single-phase and phase-change heat transfer; analytical and numerical modeling; and design for manufacturability. Plus, ThermAvant Tech. has the in-house capabilities to turn conceptual innovations into physical hardware with verifiable results with short lead times. 

Below you’ll find information about our Analytical, Software, and Testing capabilities which our customers rely upon to resolve their most pressing thermal-mechanical challenges.

Analytical Services

  • Exact analytical calculators for hot spots on isotropic and anisotropic heat spreaders

  • Oscillating heat pipe (OHP) operating limits analytical model

  • OHP thermal conductance predictor

  • Fluid selection figure of merit calculator for +1,000 working fluids for OHPs and heat pipes

  • Library of tens of thousands of OHP experimental results with empirical heat transfer coefficients at evaporator, adiabatic, and condenser areas

  • 1-D compressible flow and pressure calculator for ejector refrigerators

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Software services

  • Computer-aided design (CAD) software including: Autocad Inventor, SolidWorks, Creo Parametric

  • Finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software including: Ansys CFD, Ansys ICEPAK, Autodesk Simulation, and SolidWorks Simulator

  • Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software including: Mastercam and Pro/NC software

  • Air-side heat transfer software (Frigus Primore)

  • PCB development software (Altium Designer)

  • Design and development platforms (Matlab, LabView, and BenchView)

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