Thermal Analysis and Heat Transfer Simulation

Prashanth Sudeendran_21331

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. 

Adriano_Koga

not sure about #1.

For #2 PCONTHT could be used in conjunction with contact to allow heat transfer in disconnected parts. So, if your mesh is not connected completely node-node, you could apply this contact based conduction, as effective as connected mesh. Some singularities may arise at the interface, but overall behavior should be just fine.