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Thermal Analysis
Thermal Analysis
• Topics covered:
A. Overview
B. Procedure
C. Workshop
Thermal Analysis
A. Overview
• Thermal analyses are used to determine the temperature
distribution, thermal gradient, heat flow, and other such
thermal quantities in a structure.
• A thermal analysis can be steady-state or transient.
– Steady-state implies that the loading conditions have “settled
down” to a steady level, with little or no time dependency.
Example: An iron that has already reached the desired
temperature setting.
– Transient* implies conditions that are changing with time.
Example: A casting in the process of cooling down from molten
metal to solid.
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Thermal Analysis - Procedure
...Preprocessing
Material properties
– Minimum requirement is thermal conductivity, KXX.
– Specific heat (C) will be needed if internal heat generation is to
be applied.
– ANSYS-supplied material library (/ansys56/matlib) contains both
structural and thermal properties for a few common materials,
but we recommend that you create and use your own material
library.
Real constants
– Mainly needed for shell and line elements.
Thermal Analysis - Procedure
...Preprocessing
• Then mesh the geometry.
– Save the database.
– Use the MeshTool to create the mesh. The default smart-size
level of 6 produces a good initial mesh.
• Convections
– These are surface loads
– Solution > -Loads-Apply > Convection
– Or the SF family of commands (SFA, SFL, SF, SFE)
Thermal Analysis - Procedure
...Solution
• Adiabatic Surfaces
– “Perfectly insulated” surfaces where no heat transfer takes
place.
– This is the default condition, i.e, any surface with no boundary
conditions specified is automatically treated as an adiabatic
surface.