Graduation assignment: Master radiative heat transfer for thermal performance assessment

Introduction
This is a graduation assignment for a master's student at a technical university with a background in heat transfer and/or FEM who is interested in creating computational tools using Comsol and validating the models using literature, benchmarks and experiments.

Job Mission
At ASML, requirements constantly evolve in order to improve the performance of ASML lithography tools with respect to nm performance as well as productivity (wafers per hour). As a result, the thermal stability of components or complete modules becomes more and more important. There are several systems in charge of controlling the thermal stability of the machine; active as well as passive.

Job Description
Due to increasing demands on thermal stability, radiative heating from surface to surface has become a dominant factor to cope with. Within ASML there is a need for computational tools to evaluate the thermal performances including complex radiative heat transfer.  
The main goal is to create computational tools as mentioned above using the multi-physics software package Comsol and validate the models using literature, benchmarks and experiments.   

Roadmap of the assignment:  

- Literature study on radiative heat transfer, angle-dependent emissivity, benchmarks, exact solutions,  models, measurements;
- Setting up radiative heat transfer models in Comsol, starting simple, add complexity step-by-step;
- Providing correlations, analytical or from literature, that will help to explain the simulation results;
- Create benchmarks for inter-comparison of other software within ASML and possibly experiments;
- Create simulation apps for existing actual thermal design problems. 

Education
You are a master’s student of a technical university, with affinity for heat transfer and/or FEM. You’ll be working within a team of experienced thermal engineers for a minimum duration of 6 months and maximum duration of 1 year. The start date is to be discussed.

Please keep in mind that we can only consider students (who are enrolled at a school during the whole internship period) for our internships and graduation assignments. 

Other information

What ASML offers
Your internship will be in one of the leading Dutch corporations, gaining valuable experience in a highly dynamic environment. You will receive a monthly internship allowance of 500 euro (maximum), plus a possible housing or travel allowance. In addition, you’ll get expert, practical guidance and the chance to work in and experience a dynamic, innovative team environment.

ASML: Be part of progress
We make machines that make chips – the hearts of the devices that keep us informed, entertained and safe; that improve our quality of life and help to tackle the world’s toughest problems.
We build some of the most amazing machines that you will ever see, and the software to run them. Never satisfied, we measure our performance in units that begin with pico or nano.
We believe we can always do better. We believe the winning idea can come from anyone. We love what we do – not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard. 

Students: Getting ready for real-world R&D
Pushing technology further is teamwork, and our R&D team is more than 5,500 people strong, with major sites on three continents. Dozens of diverse, interdisciplinary teams work in parallel to meet a challenging development schedule. 
In such an environment, your colleagues may be sitting next door, or they could be thousands of kilometers away in a different country, or even working for a different company.
An internship at ASML is your opportunity to get to know this world of industrial-strength R&D and get a feel for that excites you most. Will you design a part of the machine, or make sure it gets built to the tightest possible specifications? Will you write software that drives the system to its best performance, or work side-by-side with the engineers of our customers in a fab, optimizing a system to the requirements of the customer?