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Workshop

Thermal Bar

ANSYS Mechanical
Heat Transfer

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Problem Description Customer Training Material

Consider a bar with a cross section of 0.5m by 1.0m which is 10

meters long
We will put a heat flux on one end and specify a temperature on the
other end
The bar is made of steel (K = 60.5 W/m2)
Heat flux is 100 W/m2
Temperature at the end of the bar is 100 C

10 m
1.0 m

0 m
0.5

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Units Setup Customer Training Material

Open Workbench and specify the unit system: Metric (kg, m, s, C, A,

N, V)
Choose to Display Values in Project Units

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Model Setup Customer Training Material

1. Open the Workbench Project Schematic and choose a Steady

State Thermal analysis system from the toolbox

2. Highlight the Geometry branch, RMB and Browse . . . , to file

Bar_WS1.x_t

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Model Setup Customer Training Material

3. Double click the Model branch to

open the geometry in Mechanical

4. Highlight the Steady State Thermal

branch
5. Scope a heat flux load to one end of the
bar (100 W/m2)
6 Scope
6. S a ttemperature
t load
l d to
t the
th
opposite end of the bar (100 C)
7. Solve

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Model Postprocessing Customer Training Material

8. When the solution completes

highlight the Solution branch,
RMB and Insert > Thermal >
Temperature

9. Drag and drop the Temperature

load branch onto the Solution
branch
This is a shortcut to requesting
reactions at a constraint

RMB and Evaluate All Results

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Model Postprocessing Customer Training Material

11. As a model check, review the reaction probe

result for the temperature load
Recall the area where the temperature is
applied is 0.5 m2 (0.5x1.0)
Since applied heat flux was 100 W/m2, we
should find a reaction of 50 W

12. Check the temperature distribution by

highlighting the temperature result

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Model Verification Customer Training Material

13. In this simple case we are able to figure out the

temperature at the hottest end by hand
q dT
The basic heat flow equation: = k
A dz

qz
The thermal gradient is constant so: + T1 = T2
Ak

The solution for T2 matches the value for the hot

temperature on the Simulation temperature plot
shown earlier
50(10)
+ 100 = 116.53
0.5(60.5)
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Alternate Solution Customer Training Material

It follows that we could replace the heat flux load

of 100 Watts/m2 with a heat flow of 50 watts and
get the same result
g
14. Remove Heat flux (delete or suppress):
Highlight the Heat Flux load, right click and choose
delete/suppress
pp
15. Add Heat flow (highlight S-S Thermal branch):
Highlight the end of the bar
RMB > Insert > Heat Flow
Specify 50 W for magnitude

16 Re-Solve
16.
Verify that the answer has not changed

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