Temperature

Analysis > Thermal > Temperature

This tool is used to define the temperature on edges/faces.

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

Time dependent temperature can be defined by using Amplitude table.

Cards supported for various solvers

Solver Supported Cards
OptiStruct

SPC, SPCADD

SPCD, TLOAD1, DLOAD, TABLED1 - Transient HT

Nastran SPC, SPCADD
Abaqus *BOUNDARY
Permas $PRESCRIBE DOFS=1 DOFTYPE=TEMP, $PREVAL LPAT=1 DOFTYPE=TEMP
ADVENTURECluster $ForcedTemperature