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A Little Goes A Long Way (But A Lot Doesn’t Go Much Further)

A Little Goes A Long Way (But A Lot Doesn’t Go Much Further)

It has been almost 3 years since I started this blog and I hope you’ve found it as interesting as…

More Than Two Decades and Still Going Strong; FloTHERM and FloVENT V9.3 Now Released

More Than Two Decades and Still Going Strong; FloTHERM and FloVENT V9.3 Now Released

In 1989 Flomerics was the first organisation to provide application specific CFD based simulation software where all pre and post-processing…

Simulation Software So Simple Even Teenagers Can Use It

Simulation Software So Simple Even Teenagers Can Use It

The UK government has a policy for all year 10 or year 11 students to undertake a week’s work experience….

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 3 – Relieving Thermal Bottlenecks Reduce Temperatures

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 3 – Relieving Thermal Bottlenecks Reduce Temperatures

As with all good inventions, you quickly wonder how on earth you could have done without them before. Relieving thermal…

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 2 – When TIMs Go Bad

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 2 – When TIMs Go Bad

‘Bits stuck onto other bits’, a succinct definition of an electronic product, if not a product that contains electronics. Soldering…

Bridging the Simulation Supply Chain; NXP Semiconductors, a Case in Point

Bridging the Simulation Supply Chain; NXP Semiconductors, a Case in Point

By far and away the most common enquiry by someone using FloTHERM, especially at the start of their adoption, is…

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 1 – Great Thermal Bedfellows

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 1 – Great Thermal Bedfellows

Probably due to the beer fridge, I now seem to be becoming the repository of broken electronic products with an…

Emails, more Emails and Jeff Bridges

Emails, more Emails and Jeff Bridges

It’s estimated that, from a figure of 0.4% in 1995, now about 30% of the world’s population are ‘internet users’….

LEDs; The future’s bright and hot.

LEDs; The future’s bright and hot.

LED based lighting is now a very hot topic (believe me, in electronic thermal management circles that used to be…