commit 8ee98c7eae7d8551477ac8077d41df8a48f47acc
parent e4ee05fd5a4492aae835d3da3ebfbb713a9d32d2
Author: Christophe Coustet <christophe.coustet@meso-star.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:01:05 +0100
Add information on linear and propagator.
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/stardis.html.in b/stardis.html.in
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@
</header>
<p>Stardis computes the <b>propagator</b> (aka the <b>Green function</b>) of
-coupled thermal systems under the linear assumption. Here <b>coupled</b>
-refers to conductive, convective and radiative transfers. Stardis can deal
-with complex geometries as well as high-frequency external solicitations
-over very long period of time, relative to the characteristic time of the
-system.</p>
+coupled thermal systems under the linear assumption. Here <b>coupled</b> refers
+to conductive, convective and radiative transfers, and linear means that each
+modeled phenomena is represented using a model that is linear with temperature.
+Stardis can deal with complex geometries as well as high-frequency external
+solicitations over a very long period of time, relative to the characteristic
+time of the system.</p>
<p>Stardis does not compute temperature fields as a whole. It is designed to
compute specific observables such as temperatures at probe points / dates or
@@ -49,9 +50,11 @@ device):</p>
<li> the value of interest is the core temperature (semiconductor junction)
in the red-colored region of the IGBT which is also the source of dissipated
power (see figure below),</li>
- <li> the propagator has been <b>precomputed</b> using the Stardis Monte-Carlo
- solver from the 3D description of the model and the materials' properties
- (see figure below),</li>
+ <li> an estimate of the propagator has been <b>precomputed</b> using the
+ Stardis Monte-Carlo solver from the 3D description of the model and the
+ materials' properties (see figure below); the estimate is based on 10,000
+ paths and the resulting statistical uncertainty could be reduced by just
+ sampling additional paths,</li>
<li> on request, the propagator is applied to the user-provided temperatures
and dissipated power; it acts as a <b>super-fast direct model</b> to compute
the value of the core temperature together with its statistical uncertainty
