Flux

Analysis > Thermal > Flux

This tool is used to define a surface heat flux load.

  • Distributed heat flux table option is used to apply a spatially varying heat flux load. An external file containing the spatial data of the format X,Y,Z,HeatFluxValue can be imported.

Cards supported for various solvers

Solver Supported Cards
OptiStruct

QBDY1,CHBDYE

TLOAD1, DLOAD, TABLED1 - Transient HT

Nastran QBDY1
Abaqus *DSFLUX,*DFLUX
Permas $DISLOAD SURFHS,$DISLOAD SURFHSS
Ansys SFE