# Ansys Icepak Reviews **Vendor:** Ansys, Inc. **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About Ansys Icepak Ansys Icepak provides powerful electronic cooling solutions that utilize the industry leading Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for thermal and fluid flow analyses of integrated circuits (ICs), packages, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and electronic assemblies. The Ansys Icepak CFD solver uses the Ansys Electronics Desktop (AEDT) graphical user interface (GUI). Perform conduction, convection and radiation conjugate heat transfer analyses, with many advanced capabilities to model laminar and turbulent flows, and species analysis including radiation and convection. Some of the product specs: - MCAD and ECAD Support - Solar radiation - Parametrics and Optimization - Customization and Automation - Network Modeling - DC Joule Heating Analysis - Electro-thermal and Thermo-Mechanical - Extensive Libraries for Thermal - Liquid Cooling - Dynamic Thermal Management - Varying Flow and Power ROM ## Ansys Icepak Reviews ### 1. Robust analyzing Thermal from ANSYS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** KishoreNaidu L. | Mechanical Engineer II, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Icepak results are accurate, i modelled PCB in Icepak and physically I measured board with infrared camera to see the difference in results, i see the temperature gradient is almost matching and temperatures are close to 2-3 Deg C. same i tried its great tool to support design. we can save time with tool for smaller problems. need to have some expertise to use it ease, once you get the interface its very good tool . Supporting Layout engineer in component placement by executing feasibility analysis for best thermal solution. we loved this tool. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** user interface should be improved and tool tips are needed, this will help engineers to us the tool seamless. sometime the crashing and fluent solver is running. this needs to be improved. large models are always has issues with time vs machine. also meshing must be improved and import of meshing from other tools are needed to implemented soon. cost of tool must be lowered to suite the startups. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** buy with parallel license, its saves time and buy machine. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** i used to perform Rack or Cabinet level and board level thermal simulation and optimization. 30 KW Heat removal from a test setup with Liquid Cold Plates copper pipes vacuum brazed to a aluminum plate in 19inch rack. As inlet water at 30 Deg C. Design and Simulation, prototyping. Modeling done in SolidWorks and simulation done in Ansys Icepak was quick and results were helped to find the right paths and optimized designs. ### 2. Ansys Icepak is a great thermal management tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amey B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** It can handle any kind of complex geometries, which is a very important feature. It can also do a faster problem solving as the solver it uses, is very robust. I have used it extensively and test results match the predicted simulation results. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Updating the design can be made more robust. Exporting CAD geometry from Icepak should be made more robust. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** If you want to solve your thermal design problems, Ansys Icepak should be your first choice. One can surely say that future is going to be this software and no other thermal management tool. Highly recommended by our team. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solve our customers thermal design problems with Ansys Icepak. ### 3. i have been working in the electronic cooling for the past two years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kula segara P. | Master Engineer Trainee, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** The amount of time to learn the tool is very fast, most of the meshing is automatic which saves your time on simulation The tool also has other feature to debug the divergence which comes handy when you are having troble finding the issue related to convergence **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** The tool GUI and features hasn't been updated for a long time while other ansys modules received updates every year **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** if your aim is to simulate products containing the Chips and PCB then i would highly recommend you to go with ansys Icepak **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Icepak shines in one area which is PCB thermal simulation, it has all the necessary options to design the components (QFN,BGA..etc) it can simulate from board level to system level wihtout any issues Forced convections simulations has been performed and works really good in the Icepak it can simulate PCB with traces which can be imported from the gerber files MRF simulations involving Fan also works as predicted ### 4. ICEPACK from a student's eye **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** The ability to take any input and structural, thermal conduction, and thermal convection analysis all in one place. It is fast and requires minimum work. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** The GUI is not user friendly. Needs a lot of work. It feels redundant sometimes. The look of it is poor and things are hard to look at. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** I would reccomend this software to people for use. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance of various cooling techniques on circuit boards. ### 5. Very easy to use and excellent user interface. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** I have used this software in one of subject electronic packaging which involves various flow analysis and calculations for chip cooling. One of the best thing about this it gives more accurate results which gives perfect design model for your analysis. As engineer we are expected to get near perfect results in our project. I would like to mention one more thing about its user interface is really good, its very handy and easy to operate. I have seen may software with very complicated user interface. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** There is nothing much to dislike about this software but I would like to add one more thing here. If we increasing mesh size it will take much longer time in normal computer than expected , but that is fine because It will give you more accurate results. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was my part of syllabus for subject Electronic Packaging. I was using this software for couple of projects which helps me a lot to understand the subject in details and its importance in practical application for thermal flow analysis. I was analyzing the heat sink for various conditions to make design changes in it. ### 6. Ansys Icepak Best tool for Electronic and Thermal Simulation Study **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Ansys icepak is very friendly to use and has a lot of features in modeling the different electronic boards and performing thermal simulations and other concepts of heat related problems.It will help in easy understanding of the effects of thermal behavior of components used in Simulations **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Ansys icepak has a limited functionality when it comes to help window but there are user guides which have played greater role in understanding the basics of tool usage **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** Its a good tool to perform electronic simulations **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solve vehicle level simulation on ECU and cooling systems. It is very user friendly tool and gives a clear accurate results with definite approach on the modeling which helps in better understanding of physics ### 7. It was great learning opportunity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madhav C. | analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** It helped me analyze easily & give appropriate result **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** There was no such thing to dislike. It was great throughout **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** If you're looking for easiest & fastest way to analyze beams / structure then ansys icepack is there for you **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes i need to find out bending moment of particular structure. That time easy & fast way to get result is from ansys icepack ### 8. I used Icepak for many years. I like the tech support and its capabilities which is very broad **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Easy to use and very straightforward to use **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** maybe it is a bit annoying not being able to import CAD directly **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** Please consider using Icepak for any thermal management application you have. Its capabilities are really broad and the technical support and resources to master the product are amazing! **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** all kinds....from medical device application, to consumer electronics, to industrial applications ### 9. Good integration with work bench , coupled analysis . Good package ane modeling option. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivaprasada K. | Freelance Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Integration with work bench , optimization , coupling with Ansys mechanical. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** No option to drag and drop modeling ( technology used in FloTHERM) **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** For package level modeling lot of options available . **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automotive electronics , helped in heat sink and fan optimization. ### 10. Importance of Ansys Icepak in Thermal Management of Electronics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jimil M. S. | Application Development Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Icepak has an excellent Graphical user interface for modeling cooling of electronic systems. It has excellent macros for cooling components like heat pipes and thermo-electric devices. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Icepak needs good detailed models of components. It also requires physics for two-phase cooling. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** It’s good for air cooling and cold plate cooling. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cooling of electronics. Compact and quick solutions. ### 11. multi-physics simulation with coupled Icepak and SIwave **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** quick simulator and user-friendly for thermal modeling of microelectronics. especially when we are in hurry to have an initial simulation. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** problem in Ubuntu linux environment. we had to use in windows **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** multi-physics electro-thermal modeling of several packages for a better simulation of the wire bondings. ### 12. Ansys Icepak for electronics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Salvador M. | Magnetic and Electromagnetic Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Ansys Icepak is a good solution to compute temperature in electronic PCBs **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** I don’t dislike. This software is very useful to compute temperature and cooling systems in electronics systems **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Computation of temperature and heat flow in electronics systems ### 13. It is easy to operate and ready made available electronics parts makes job very easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Readymade available parts for different electronic components is the best. We can also import traces . **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** We can not important traces on inclined PCB. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** It's user interface is very easy. It will gives results on which you can rely on to design better thermally robust design. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working on CCTV camera, access control device. We are able to design thermally robust design. It helps us in making change in design stage and saves lots of time in prototype. ### 14. Icepak is an effective simulation tool for system cooling thermal assessment. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** The solver can solve complex simulation very fast and efficiently. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** The GUI is outdated and not so intuitive compare to other ANSYS workbench products. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** Proper training is essential before start using Icepak. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** System thermal cooling simulation. It can provide quick overview at conceptual stages and provide a good trench prediction before going into details design. ### 15. I had an average experience with this application where I used Icepak to simulate problems ahead. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Easy to use and understand(readability). **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** There is still scope for improvement of the process to reduce time consumption for solving problems. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** Use it for futuristic problems ahead to save money and time. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems like, determining the thermal limits of a component before hand you create the product. Same money and time. ### 16. Icepak is really user friendly and accurate simulator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joboy R. | Engineering Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** model import options are really usefull. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** results export data can be much better.. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Airflow analysis with and without fans ### 17. I have used Ansys Icepak for a Fan cooled PCBA simulation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** I like the different electronic components which can be used in the discrete model **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Processing time, non-convergence depending on the type of equation **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** PCBA, Antenna Chip and Power Module. Benefits over other programs I know are the respective components, such as „Fan“, etc. which can be easily inserted into the model ### 18. Best Thermal Management Simulation software for electronics. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Easy to use. Includes user manual for new users **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Little expensive. There is no online tutorial. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** I do not have any recommendations. Thank you very much **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need to know temperature for a microchip which suppose to be incorporated into our electronic device. I find that out before building prototype. ### 19. Powerful all in one tool for electronic cooling applications. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Meshing approach stands out. Ability to handle CAD and a lot more control over mesh and solver settings. Numerous turbulence models to fit different needs. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Added complexity when compared to comparable CFD softwares. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly Joule Heating, Cad intensive and ECAD related problems. More robust fluent solver is one of the greatest benefit. ### 20. Review of ANSYS Icepak **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** The user has the ability to input CAD geometry **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Do not have full control of the mesh and the model can become quite large **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** I would recommend ICEPAK to others **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have been determining the pressure drop thru a system and also the loss factors ### 21. Icepak Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** In IcePak you have plenty of options to create or import your PCB **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Sometimes the way that you want to do some changes in orientation or position of part the IcePak becomes hard to use **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** DTM ### 22. Worked on Ansys Icepak for thermal simulation of Power Electronics was an overall good experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Direct Thermal simulation,Inbuilt Space claim like features,Inbuilt components **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Have to move to SIwave for circuit design and a different software licene required **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** Can be used for power electronics simulations **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** pOWER ELECTRONICS THERMAL Simulations,Easie for system level simulation,easy designing ### 23. J h review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Accuracy of results and method of solving the mathematics **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** The user interface is not modern looking and with modern feel **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thermal design optical thermal ### 24. Best Simulation Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SANAT K. | Graduate Student Researcher, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** The best thing about this software is that it is very robust. You can do any type of Simulation from thermal to structural to fluid flow. The other best about this software is that you can modify your simulation by typing your own code in fluent etc. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** The one thing which I don't like about ANSYS is its designing platform. It is not very user-friendly. They should include different options so that we can also design in it instead of importing it from other software. **Recommendations to others considering Ansys Icepak:** They have the perfect simulation tool but they should also focus on the designing tool. **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** This software helped me to complete different projects like I ran heat transfer simulation, structural analysis, and fluid flow at high-pressure simulations in it. ### 25. Really good thermal analysis for pcb packs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Ansys Icepak?** Importing board layers and traces, assigning current and voltage conditions, determining heating, inputting fan curves and air flow. **What do you dislike about Ansys Icepak?** Space mouse doesn’t work. Selecting objects is tricky. Result visualization is limited, got to rely on cfd post for better post processing **What problems is Ansys Icepak solving and how is that benefiting you?** Designing heat sinks for circuit boards, analyzing trace layout , component placement and fan selection. ## Ansys Icepak Discussions - [Ansys Icepak still has issues like it can't simulate inclined PCB why are these issues not sorted out?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32209-ansys-icepak-still-has-issues-like-it-can-t-simulate-inclined-pcb-why-are-these-issues-not-sorted-out) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is the best way of modeling two-phase immersion cooling?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/31935-what-is-the-best-way-of-modeling-two-phase-immersion-cooling) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Ansys Icepak pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-icepak/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+01%3A30%3A42+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2abf9ba7-5874-4fd5-b317-aa02c25db33b&secure%5Btoken%5D=47a99da0aea1ccae1aae625a3e28a916149adcefa4f70363736b70ebf73e9952&format=llm_user) ## Ansys Icepak Features **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity ## Top Ansys Icepak Alternatives - [SolidWorks Simulation](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks-solidworks-simulation/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (58 reviews) - [MATLAB](https://www.g2.com/products/matlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (748 reviews) - [SOLIDWORKS](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (628 reviews)