SOLVERS: Transient Heat Settings

Description

The Transient Heat solver uses a time stepping approach to calculate the temperature variation in a structure as a function of time. The solver considers three basic modes of heat transfer: conduction, convection and radiation, as well as time dependent heat loading.

The output from this solver is a set of nodal temperatures at each time step (analogous to displacement in a structural solution), from which thermal flux can be calculated (analogous to stress in a structural solution).

For each time step of the analysis, the solver calculates the temperature at each node (analogous to displacement in a structural stress analysis), the element thermal flux density (analogous to stress in a structural stress analysis) and the nodal flux (equivalent to node reactions in a structural stress analysis).

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Situated on the right of the window, it shows the following sub-tabs:

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