Thermal Design and Control Webinar Series 

NADCA has created a NEW webinar series on Thermal Design and Control. This 5 part series will provide a comprehensive exploration of heat transfer principles and their applications in engineering systems. The webinar focuses on utilizing Fourier’s laws of conduction and Newton’s law of cooling for convection to analyze, design, and optimize thermal systems. Topics include steady-state and transient heat conduction, convection heat transfer in various configurations, and the integration of these principles into practical design challenges. Students will learn to utilize and solve governing equations, evaluate thermal performance, and apply analytical and numerical methods to solve real-world thermal management problems. By the end of the course, participants will gain a solid understanding of thermal control strategies and the ability to apply these concepts to die cast engineering challenges, such as die design, and cooling line placement for water, and oil cooling systems. 

Part 1: Introduction to Thermal Design and Control
This webinar will teach the fundamentals of heat transfer using conduction and Fourier's Law. Using this equation the student will apply the laws of conduction and will learn how to design and calculate a cooling line depth in a die cast die. 
Date: January 28, 2025

Part 2: Heat Transfer Continued with Convection 
This webinar will teach the fundamentals of convective heat transfer inside a cooling line. The student will learn about the convective film coefficient and how that affects thermal transfer into a cooling line. Several convection charts will be reviewed and we will start to understand advanced thermal conduction.  
Date: January 29, 2025

Part 3: Combining Conduction and Convection for Thermal Analysis
This webinar will combine the conduction equations and the convection equations for a comprehensive equation to define the working depth and working length needed to remove heat from a die cast die. Several equations will be worked together for a complete understanding of the concept. Defining heat in terms of sensible heat and latent heat will also be reviewed. In addition, this section will also address heat removal from the die cast die by external sources like die spray.     
Date: January 30, 2025

Part 4: Die Design Procedures for Cooling Line Placement
This webinar will review the design of a die casting and breaking that casting down into its many components. The heat input from each of those components will be calculated. Once the total heat input is determined, then the cooling line placement for depth and length can be calculated using formulas learned in earlier webinars.
Date: January 31, 2025

Part 5: Die Cooling Guidelines and Summary
This webinar wraps up the entire webinar series by reviewing guidelines for placement of cooling lines in the die cast die.
Date: February 4, 2025

Register for the Thermal Design and Control Series

Register for a single Webinar: 
Part 1 - Introduction to Thermal Design and Control
Part 2 - Heat Transfer Continued with Convection
Part 3 - Combining Conduction and Convection for Thermal Analysis
Part 4 - Die Design Procedures for Cooling Line Placement
Part 5 - Die Cooling Guidelines and Summary

These webinars will take place at 12pm Central on the dates listed. The cost per webinar is $69 for Corporate Members, $99 for Individual Members or $119 for Non-Members. Please note that registering for a webinar grants you access to the live broadcast on the given date. No recordings or pdfs of the presentation will be issued.