Thermal simulation still often sits outside the core software in many of today’s engineering environments. It’s not unusual to access thermal solvers through external tools, separate licenses, or manual preprocessing steps. Perhaps this is not surprising — it can take years and a heavy investment to develop a precise and efficient thermal solver internally. External tools or supplementary internal workarounds have served the industry as a compromise.
And yet, thermal behavior does not live in isolation. Heat influences almost everything around us: structural integrity, electrical performance, fluid behavior, and long-term reliability. The more electrified and compact our technologies become, the greater the impact of thermal traits on performance. Teams need access to rich thermal simulation data to make informed design and production decisions.
With the launch of the TMG Software Development Kit from Maya HTT, engineers and software developers can now integrate and access a proven thermal solver from within the software they already use. The TMG™ SDK is available for direct integration into third-party software and custom engineering platforms. It’s now simple and seamless to connect thermal models with structural, electrical, fluid, and system-level analyses.
Mature Thermal Simulation Tech, Proven Across Industries
The TMG™ SDK is built on Maya HTT’s proprietary Thermal Model Generator (TMG™) solver, which is already embedded inside mission-critical simulation platforms of leading manufacturers around the world. In other words, this SDK is not a new experiment or a stripped-down library. It is the same high-fidelity thermal simulation solution trusted for decades by 21 of the world’s top 25 aerospace and defense organizations and thousands of customers across transport, machinery, energy, and other advanced sectors.
With this release, Maya HTT has extended that mature, field-proven technology into new digital ecosystems through a flexible, white-label SDK.
As explained by Jake Harris, VP Software Products at Maya HTT, “Speed means nothing unless you can trust the results. The TMG™ SDK delivers on both fronts. Our partners gain a solver that is blisteringly fast and deeply validated. It’s already embedded in some of the most demanding engineering environments in the world.”
Connectivity as a Competitive Advantage
In customer conversations leading up to launch, one message has consistently outperformed the rest: connectivity. Engineering teams increasingly work across structural, fluid, electrical, orbital, and system-level analyses. Thermal effects couple with virtually all of them in some way. Heating alters material properties and thermal expansion creates structural loads. Electrical systems generate waste heat that must be anticipated in order to mitigate it properly. Fluids transport thermal energy.
The TMG™ SDK makes it possible for developers to embed a high-fidelity thermal backend directly within these broader simulation environments. That means:
- Thermal models can be linked with 1D system analysis.
- Multidisciplinary optimization can include accurate radiation and conduction physics.
- Software vendors can expand functionality without building a thermal engine from scratch.
- There’s no need to export models or force users to context-switch between tools.
As far as integrations, the SDK is solver- and platform-agnostic and highly adaptable. Partners may choose to white-label the solution, integrate it under their own brand, or combine it with complementary internal physics technologies — whatever works best. Maya HTT remains a neutral, long-established partner with a stable solution and deep experience designing for seamless integration.
GPU-Powered Speed
Thermal simulation software is commonly associated with long runtimes, and even more so for radiation-dominated models. TMG™ addresses the bottleneck of legacy solver technologies through GPU-accelerated ray tracing which dramatically reduces computation time.
In benchmark testing, Maya HTT compared a complex radiation model using a Hemicube method on 8 CPU cores to the GPU-accelerated ray tracing approach with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU. The CPU-based method with Hemicube design required 127,233 seconds to finish. The GPU-accelerated method completed the simulation in just 311 seconds. That represents a speedup of over 400× with measured GPU acceleration in the reported case.
This is no pipe-dream gain in performance. Engineering teams can count on GPU acceleration to run more iterations, validate more scenarios, and avoid familiar multi-day waits for radiation solutions to converge. Designs can move forward faster.
Consider the broader implications: Faster turnaround means reduced time to market, a key goal Maya HTT set for the TMG™ SDK. Computational efficiency is a means to gain true systemic agility.
Reduced Development Burden
The TMG™ SDK represents a premium alternative to the years of sustained investment it would require to build a robust, validated thermal solver in-house or to optimize an existing internal solution. Teams can now expand fundamental accuracy out of the box with an integrated TMG™ backed by decades of validation.
Derek Peeling, Product Director at Maya HTT, emphasizes this point: “We’ve spent decades refining the accuracy, usability, performance, and reliability of our thermal modeling solution. With TMG™ SDK, our partners can now focus on their core innovations while relying on a solver that’s already trusted at the highest levels of industry.”
The SDK serves as a solution both for organizations that lack thermal simulation tools and those that seek to elevate or mature their existing capabilities.
TMG™ SDK Is Ready to Join Next-Gen Engineering Tools
TMG™ SDK is a scalable solution for commercial computer-aided engineering (CAE) platforms and internal simulation environments alike. A high-fidelity thermal solver, embedded right into your existing software or internal tools, allows developers to accelerate design decisions and validation. There’s a clear path to competitive advantage with the integration of thermal analysis as a native capability.
To bring the proven thermal simulation technology of the TMG™ SDK into your preferred engineering tools, contact us today. Leverage the unparalleled expertise of Maya HTT, a world leader in CAE software, to harness the value of your data as you tackle the most complex engineering projects.
