Excel Model Control Interface

Microsoft Excel and thermal software such as SINDA/FLUINT® have enjoyed a long history together. For many years, especially before the advent of modern GUIs, creative users have employed Excel and other spreadsheet software to generate parts of thermal models.

C&R provides an Excel template for launching, controlling, and communicating with both SINDA/FLUINT and Thermal Desktop® (which may in turn invoke SINDA/FLUINT). The template is easily modifiable by advanced users to create a custom GUI for controlling arbitrarily complex thermal/fluid solutions. The user prepares a Thermal Desktop drawing or SINDA/FLUINT input file with suitable parameters (symbols and/or registers), and with appropriate calls to initiate the COM connection and data exchange. The Excel sheet can then be rearranged and expanded as needed.

As an example, a loop heat pipe (LHP) model has been generated using the SINDA/FLUINT Excel interface as shown below and is available for download.

• Download a simple Excel based sample problem problem

• Download the Excel LHP Model for the PC

The Excel SINDA/FLUINT Controller is integrated with the standard SINDA/FLUINT installation and requires version 4.6 or higher of SINDA/FLUINT.

• Download the latest version of SINDA/FLUINT
  • If you are a licensed user, click here
  • No license? No problem, download our full function demo version

For more information about this Excel interface, please contact C&R Technologies.

Additional Resources

• A free online training presentation is available for the Excel SINDA Controller
• An Excel User Interface for Modeling LHPs in SINDA/FLUINT, ICES 2004 PDF
• Customizable Multidiscipline Environments for Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Modeling, ICES 2004 PDF
• Integrating Thermal And Structural Analysis using Thermal Desktop ICES 1999 PDF