TCCbuilder : an open-source tool for the analysis of thermal switches, thermal diodes, thermal regulators, and thermal control circuits

Vozel, Katja (author), Klinar, Katja (author), Petelin, Nada (author), Kitanovski, Andrej (author)

In the area of thermal management, thermal control elements (TCEs) and thermal control circuits (TCCs) are proving to be innovative solutions to the challenges of temperature control and heat dissipation in various applications, ranging from electronic cooling to energy conversion and temperature control in buildings. Their integration promises to improve power density, energy efficiency, system reliability and system life expectancy. With the aim of connecting researchers in the field of thermal management and accelerating the development of TCEs and TCCs, we have developed an open-source TCC simulation tool called TCCbuilder that enables a quick and easy time-dependent 1D numerical analysis of the behavior of TCEs and TCCs. It uses the heat conduction equation to solve temperature profiles in different devices. The TCCbuilder application offers features not previously available with any other TCC modelling tool: a large adjacent library of materials and TCEs as well as a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI).

• Language: English
• Keywords: thermal engineering, thermal property, materials science, thermal switches, thermal diodes, thermal management, heat transfer, thermal control devices
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 27, iss. 12, art. 111263
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-166914
• UDC: 536
• ISSN on article: 2589-0042
• DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111263
• COBISS.SI-ID: 213537795
• Publication date in RUL: 30.01.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: iScience
• Publisher: Cell Press, Elsevier
• ISSN: 2589-0042
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24098568

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: toplotna stikala, toplotne diode, toplotni regulatorji, prenos toplote, upravljanje s toploto

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J7-3148
• Name: TCCbuilder: Odprtokodno simulacijsko orodje za toplotne tokokroge

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P2-0223
• Name: Prenos toplote in snovi