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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, ).
By: Majid Soleimaninia
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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.
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The ANSYS file sizes for real engineering problems get to be quite large, so have a directory
dedicated to ANSYS:
1. Utility Menu File Change Directory.
2. Browse for Folder Change Working Directory, pick your directory (ANSYS
Tutorial_P5-70 in Figure 4), OK.
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To keep up with your analysis studies over time create descriptive titles:
1. Utility Menu File Change Title.
2. Change Title, enter a descriptive title, OK (see Figure 5).
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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;
1. Main Menu Preprocessor Modeling Create Areas Rectangle By 2
Corners.
2. In Rectangle by 2 Corners of Figure 15 enter coordinates of small rectangular area (A2),
WP X = 10, WP Y = 40, Width = 10, Height = 10 (mm), OK.
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Now you can subtract the small rectangular areas (A2 & A3) from the main big rectangular areas
(A1):
1. Main Menu Preprocessor Modeling Operate Booleans Subtract
Area.
2. In Subtract Areas of Figure 17 select the main area (A1) by clicking on it. Note: The
selected area will turn pink once it is selected. Click 'OK' on the 'Subtract Areas'
window. Now you should select the areas to be subtracted, select the smaller rectangles
(A2 &A3) by clicking on them and then click 'OK'. Now, your model should be like
Figure 17 and have the new rectangular area (A4) as you see.
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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.
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3.7 Meshing
1. Main Menu Preprocessor Meshing Mesh Areas Free.
2. In Mesh Areas, seen in Figure 29, click on Pick All, OK.
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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.
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Figure 33: Applying the Insulated Boundary condition for the bottom wall.
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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.
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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.
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Now you will have nodal temperature contour plot of your model, as you can see in Figure
38.
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