LED thermal and mechanical simulation

It depends on how you want to define the thermal load - is there anything special about the thermal load of an LED?

Otherwise, no problem using CA for this.

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Honestly, I don't know how you could create a non-linear thermal/mechanical simulation with contact in praxis, but Im positive it can be done.
A static thermal/mechanical simulation is done by simulating the thermal load first, then calculating the mechanical stress afterwards, so a non-linear contact simulation would have to flip flop between those two calculations. As I said, Im positive it can be done, so try searching for it on the Code_Aster forum.

Xahoman: Code_Aster is designed to run on clusters, but it is a bit tricky to get to work on a multi-core workstation, but there are many posts about how to do it.

The efficiency of using multiple cores, is highly dependent on the characteristics of the simulation. Again, there are many posts about the topic on the Code_Aster forum.

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