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.
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
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
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