SMX124 - Thermal Analysis (SOL400) using SimXpert

Length:
3 days
Pre-requisites :
No prior familiarity with SimXpert is required.
Topics:
- Overview of thermal analysis in SimXpert
- Topics on conduction
- Theory, briefly
- Creation of 1D, 2D, and 3D elements
- Material for conduction
- Temperature constraint
- Initialization temperature
- Loading: heat flux, and volumetric heat
- Analysis set-up for steady state analysis, including nonlinear parameters
- Display of steady state results
- Topics on convection
- Theory, briefly
- Free convection
- Topics on transient analysis
- Transient temperature constraint
- Transient loading
- Transient convection
- Initialization temperature
- Transient analysis set-up, including nonlinear parameters
- Display of transient results
- Topics on radiation
- Theory, briefly
- Radiation to space
- Radiation enclosures
- Vector flux from a distant source
- Thermal analysis theory
- In more depth
- Nonlinear parameters
- Recommendations
- Import of MSC Nastran models into SimXpert
- Import of CAD models into SimXpert
- Parts in SimXpert