Postprocessing the thermal analysis results is described in detail in the Patran Thermal User’s Guide and postprocessing in general is described in the Patran Reference Manual.

Basically, Patran Thermal will produce Patran nodal results or neutral files for use by Patran. You should note that the radiosity nodes, being nonphysical, are not part of the Patran geometric model and hence these nodes and the results at these nodes cannot easily be displayed in Patran Plus. The results at these nodes may be examined in the QOUTDAT file. Also, the QOUTDAT file has additional information on the radiation resistors and the heat flow through these resistors which you may wish to examine. The QOUTDAT file is documented in the Patran Thermal User’s Guide.