Raspberry Pi 5 cooling.

Compare component temperatures and airflow with and without the Active Cooler, using real simulations from the Vanellus API.

8.6 W board power
20°C ambient air
CHT + RANS heat transfer and flow

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Bare Raspberry Pi 5 simulation showing hot components and rising airflow — Buoyancy alone cannot cool this fixed-load model. The run reaches its iteration limit with the SoC still far above its operating range.

Raspberry Pi 5 Active Cooler simulation showing component temperatures and airflow through the heatsink fins — Adding the heatsink, thermal pads, and blower stabilises the simulated SoC junction at **70.6°C**.

Colours show temperature, with a separate scale for each view. This is an illustrative fixed-power model; a real board would throttle before reaching the bare-board temperatures.

Run it yourself

Start with the complete case.

The guide’s Python package includes both configurations, STEP geometry, materials, and a short setup README. Add your API key to run the cases or adapt the design.

Full walkthrough, assumptions, and results →

Download Python case (ZIP)

Ready-to-submit API requests

Bare board (JSON) ↓ Active Cooler (JSON) ↓

Bare board

With the Active Cooler

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