/THERMAL

Engine Keyword Thermal analysis.

Format

/THERMAL

Time-factor

Definition

Field Contents SI Unit Example
Time-factor Factor to speed-up the thermal analysis.

Default = 1

  

Comments

  1. All thermal properties are automatically scaled by Time-factor. The thermal behavior (or effect) corresponds to computation time multiplied by Time-factor.
    With the following imposed flux in the input deck:
    #---1----|----2----|----3----|----4----|----5----|----6----|----7----|----8----|----9----|---10----|
/UNIT/1
unit system
#          mass_unit         length_unit           time_unit
                  Mg                  mm                   s 
#---1----|----2----|----3----|----4----|----5----|----6----|----7----|----8----|----9----|---10----|
/IMPFLUX/1/1
Imposed heat flux
#  Surf_ID    Fct_ID   Sens_ID GRBRIC_ID
         0         2         0         8
#            ASCALEx             FSCALEy              Tstart               Tstop
                   0                   1                 50                  300
#---1----|----2----|----3----|----4----|----5----|----6----|----7----|----8----|----9----|---10----|
    And in the Engine file:
    /RUN/TEST/1
0.2
/THERMAL
1000

    The thermal flux starts at run time = 0.05 s (50/1000) and stops 0.3 s (300/1000).

    The thermal flux received in the element from time 0.05 to 0.2 s is equivalent to the same model without /THERMAL computed up to 200 s.

  2. The thermal parameters defined in the input deck should be the physical ones.
  3. This thermal factor control works for thermal analysis with solid, shell, and sph elements for the following entities: