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Tutorial For Assignment #3 Heat Transfer Analysis by ANSYS (Mechanical APDL) V.13.0
Tutorial For Assignment #3 Heat Transfer Analysis by ANSYS (Mechanical APDL) V.13.0
Tutorial For Assignment #3 Heat Transfer Analysis by ANSYS (Mechanical APDL) V.13.0
1.1 OBJECTIVE:
Determine an optimal number of fins to use on the component. Cases considered should all use
an odd number of fins (3, 5, 7, ).
1.2 Deliverables:
A hardcopy submission that includes:
1. A plot of the temperature distribution in the component for the baseline case of 3 cooling
fins and for your recommended number of fins.
2. A plot generated using Matlab that shows the reduction of the maximum temperature in
the component as a function of the number of fins.
Students are encouraged to collaborate with each other by distributing the tasks of modeling the
specific cases (each case differing in only the number of fins used). Submissions must be
prepared individually.
that has occurred hit the Raise Hidden button, . You will always need a job name:
The ANSYS file sizes for real engineering problems get to be quite large, so have a directory
dedicated to ANSYS:
To keep up with your analysis studies over time create descriptive titles:
To make two other small rectangular areas in top of our domain which we should subtract them
from the main domain, you can do the same procedure;
Now you can subtract the small rectangular areas (A2 & A3) from the main big rectangular areas
(A1):
You also can see the list of all areas to distinguish them easily, Figure 25. Here the A1 is the
Copper section, A3 is the Aluminum section and the A4 is the Steel section.
Define the Material attribute for other areas (A3 & A4) in the same way, just change Material
number =2 for A3 and Material number =3 for A4.
3.7 Meshing
1. Main Menu Preprocessor Meshing Mesh Areas Free.
2. In Mesh Areas, seen in Figure 29, click on Pick All, OK.
3. The new window, Apply CONV on Lines, will appear, Fill in the window as shown in
Figure 32. This will specify a convection of 0.00005 W/mm2.K and an ambient
temperature of 293 Kelvin. Note that VALJ and VAL2J have been left blank. This is
because we have uniform convection across the line, OK.
Figure 33: Applying the Insulated Boundary condition for the bottom wall.
In order to apply heat source on the small rectangle (Copper section):
3. The new window, Apply HGEN on areas, will appear, Fill in the window as shown in
Figure 35. This will specify 0.01 W/mm2 heat generation rate on area section, OK.
1. Main Menu Solution Solve Current LS, review the listed summary, OK.
2. When the solution of the simultaneous equations is complete you will be alerted that the
solution is done.
5 Post-processing
5.1 Plot Temperature
It is always wise to visually check the computed displacements:
1. Main Menu General Postproc Plot Results Contour Plot Nodal Solu.
2. In Contour Nodal Solution Data, seen in Figure 37, DOF Solution Nodal
Temperature, OK.
Now you will have nodal temperature contour plot of your model, as you can see in Figure
38.