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Quick Workshop 1: Conduction (Fourier’s Law)

ANSYS Mechanical Heat Transfer

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 Overview

• Goal
– Understanding the Fourier’s Law and how it is applied by the ANSYS solver for
modeling the conduction

• Model Description
– The model is a simple cubic block with two applied temperatures at each end

– The results obtained with ANSYS will be compared with a hand calculation

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 Project Startup

File>Restore Archive >Conduction.wbpz

• Double click on Model to launch Mechanical

• Set the unit system to: Metric (m, Kg, N, s, V, A)

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 Model Description
Make yourself familiar with the model
Click on the edges below and note the edges lengths:
• The square area is equal to 1 𝒎𝟐
• The block’s length is equal to 5 𝒎

Generate the Mesh

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 Boundary Conditions

Apply a temperature of 20°C to the + Y axis face

Apply a temperature of 120°C to the opposite side face

Solve the Model

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 Postprocessing

View the Temperature distribution

Drag and drop the two applied Temperatures to the ‘Solution’ branch to get the probes

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 Comparison with hand calculation

After evaluating all the results, the heat balance is equal to zero and the heat transiting
the structure is equal to 1210 𝑾

We will do the hand calculation using the same inputs:

Recall the equations in slide 11 of the Module 01
T L
• A=1 𝒎𝟐 q Where, Rth 
Rthcond cond
KL  A
• L=5𝒎
• K L = 60.5 𝑾. 𝒎−𝟏 . 𝑲−𝟏 (Structural Steel  look in the Engineering Data)
Rthcond is then equal to: 0.082645 𝑾. 𝒎−𝟏 . Given T equal to 100 𝑲 which gives q = 1210 𝑾

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 Go further

Suppress the second applied temperature and its Reaction Probe

Apply a Heat flow of 1210 𝑾 at the surface of the suppressed boundary condition
Solve the Model and comment the results

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