Sorry for not responding for a long time. In the mean time I have done no further work / thinking regarding this topic.. but today stumbled upon this Matlab toolbox for thermal simulations. At first glance it seems capable of simulating the designs discussed here.

There's a trial version and a 6 months students version for anyone to try, given access to Matlab.

MrS

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