An Enhanced Finite Element Thermal Solver with Large-scale Parallel Computing Capability

MOOSE, an object-oriented parallel computing framework, has been universally utilized in developing numerical solver. In this work, a finite element method solver with large-scale parallel computing capability is developed based on the MOOSE framework for high-efficient and scalable thermal simulations. The performance of the developed numerical solver is evaluated through comparing the simulation results of a simplified AMD microprocessor with those obtained by the commercial software COMSOL. High consistence is achieved between the two groups of data, and the simulation time is greatly reduced through utilizing the inhouse simulator.