396 Heat Transfer: Thermal Management of Electronics
14.5.4 re v i e w T h e re s u l T s
It is very important that the results of a thermal simulation are reviewed to make sure
they make sense before making any design decisions based on those results. Some
may argue that thermal simulation tools have been tested and benchmarked against
similar thermal models before being released to market and one should trust the
results they produce. However, this argument is only partially true. There is no doubt
that most of these tools have been aggressively tested and are capable of predicting
ow and temperature elds with reasonable accuracies. However, the accuracy of
any simulation result strongly correlates with the validity of the modeli ...