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AutoFEM Analysis Heat Transferring | |
The thermal analysis module serves for solving heat transfer and thermal conduction problems. A typical goal of performing thermal analysis is finding temperature fields and heat (thermal) flux within a product's volume. AutoFEM supports two ways of formulating a thermal analysis problem:
Commands to create a thermal study.
•Steady state – calculating temperature fields and heat flux distribution under the assumption of an infinitely long time passing after applying thermal loads. A body's temperature does not change with time in the steady state, so that an elementary body volume loses as much energy to the environment per the time unit as it gains from outside or from internal heat sources.
•Transient process – temperature fields calculation occurs as a function of time. The temperature field distribution pattern changes with time in the analysed physical system, so that the study results in obtaining temperature fields at each time instant of a certain time period set forth by the user.
Examples of a steady-state and transient thermo-dynamical processes