Analysis of the heat sink of a tail lamp using finite element method

The automotive industry today requires the change in design, lower cost and advanced features to enhance the demand of an automobile. With the invention of new designs and using the analysis methods the designers today can predict the performance of an automobile. For a tail lamp the thermal analysis has been performed on the heat sink of a tail lamp. A heat sink used in tail lamp functions to dissipate the heat generated due to continuous use of lamp. The analysis has been performed in two steps. A CATIA model of a tail lamp has been generated in the first step which is in a while imported in the HYPERMESH. Later in the analysis meshing is done on the model with the help of HYPERMESHING and after applying boundary conditions the solution report file and graph can be plotted. These report file and graphs helps in detecting the new boundary conditions validation by comparing the graph result with the standard result of 80W street lamp and 56W tail lamp. Hence the validation of the result can be shown via a comparison table.