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Sauna at a glance
- created for the thermal simulation of electronic equipment
- used to model heat sinks, circuit boards (PCB's) and boxes (with
and without internal PCB's)
- models are composed of the building blocks of plates and
boards
- underlying modeling method is thermal network (thermal nodes and
resistors), but modern architecture means that user rarely specifies
a resistor value
- large component library
- convection and radiation coefficients calculated automatically
- easy to learn and use, much easier than finite
element method (FEM) or computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
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