Thermoelectric Cooling

This detailed finite element analysis was created to study the impact of Thermal Interfacing Materials (TIM) on a double-stacked thermoelectric cooling assembly. The fully coupled model uses input voltages to calculate the temperature drop across the cooler. Calculated values for the TIM's bulk conductance are presented along with thier subsequent impact on the minimum possible temperature.

3D Space-charge Limited Current Modeling

These plots are the output from a detailed finite element model model built to simulate the collector current for a novel thermionic energy converter. The model's bi-directionally coupled physics enables accurate space-charge limited current predictions.

Numerical Heat Transfer Simulation

This is a multiphysics, Python-based, numerical simulation to model the Joule heating of a prototype, tactical glove. The code models a battery discharge as a function of discharge current and subsequently uses the current to model the heat transfer from a resistive heating element into a cold surrounding.

The code was used to size the battery and heating element for functioning prototyping. Sims' like this save time and materials costs by reducing the number of tests needed to reach a functioning proof of concept.

Aircraft Power Requirement App

This Python-based app lets users adjust sliders to quickly run a first-order design cycle for an aircraft's wing configuration.