Our team has a broad experience designing heat exchangers for additive manufacturing processes. Thanks to our understanding of this technology and our innovative design approach, we can offer thermal solutions that are:

• Lighter, ultra-compact and better performing
• Integrated and with higher overall system efficiency and lower total assembly part count.

The increasing demand of lightweight, compact and highly efficient heat exchangers are key examples where additive manufacturing has shown to provide unparalleled benefit compared to the traditional manufacturing techniques. While conventional manufacturing methods are limited by the process limitations, additive manufacturing provides new opportunities for optimal design and advanced technology integration.

There are many applications that could benefit from highly compact and effective heat exchangers made by additive manufacturing. We are currently developing solutions for the following markets:

• Aerospace
• Energy
• Motosport/Automotive
• Electronics

We have expertise in analysing thermal components for a variety of applications. Our analysis toolbox consists of a mix of commercial and open-source software in combination with our own developed tools, including CFD, FEA and 1D modelling simulation. This allows us to offer insights to our clients of all the relevant aspects of the life cycle of a product, such as thermal efficiency, fluid dynamics, structural aspects and system response.

We develop automated optimization tools for thermal management components; which result in better, lighter, safer and more efficient solutions. Using optimization workflows, we can provide optimised solutions that can take into account:

• Thermal-flow aspects, such as heat transfer and pressure loses
• Structural aspects, such as maximum stress or fatigue life
• System aspects, such as overall system efficiency, packaging or overall system volume
• Other aspects, such as volume, mass and cost

In order to make the most of Additive Manufacturing, a new design approach is necessary. Fully exploiting the freedoms of AM for your part, could result in:

• Volume/mass reduction
• Greater integration with your system
• Increased efficiency
• Increased functionality

We can help you redesign your part for additive manufacturing, giving you guidance and support at every step of the AM workflow.

By using an optimization-driven design methodology, we can develop your products faster and to be cheaper, safer, lighter and better performing.

Due to the design freedom offered by additive manufacturing, topology optimization is very well suited to this manufacturing process. Topology optimization is a mathematical method that allows us to optimize the material layout within a given design space available in your system, for a given set of loads, boundary conditions and constraints with the goal of maximizing the performance of the system.

Additive manufacturing (AM) enables fabrication of multiscale cellular structures as a whole part. The use of cellular structures can serve a number of purposes such thermal performance, structural integrity, weight reduction, manufacturability or a combination of these.

We have created tools for designing lattice structures and controlling them across the design space, allowing the optimization of their characteristics for the local conditions.