Thermal Analysis and Heat Transfer Simulation

Prashanth Sudeendran_21331
Prashanth Sudeendran_21331 Altair Community Member
edited March 4 in Community Q&A

Hi Members,

I have an important question from my master thesis perspective.

I have created a heat transfer simulation ( Purely Conduction and No Convection ) in optistrukt. (System is considered to be in Vaccum)

1. Is it possible to determine the overal heat transfer in the simulation for the component? I have gotten results for Heat Transfer in the system using SPCForce in the Outputrequest.. But it would be nice to find the overal heat transfer in the system as a result.
2. There is contact property in my model, I looked into some tutorial videos to add PCONTHT and KCHTC. It would be nice to know if it is necessary for the purely conduction simulation.

Thanks in advance.