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Face to Face Thermal Links Tutorial

Face to Face conduction allows us to quickly mesh the individual parts in a CAD program and then easily connect them thermally without further mesh editing. The purpose of this tutorial is to understand how Face to Face conduction is setup and executed. Face to Face conduction allows parts with disconnected meshes to be thermally connected and supports contact resistance. In this example, we are simulating a pipe hanger clamped around a duct carrying hot gas inside. Face to Face conduction will be setup to enable conduction from the pipe to the pipe clamp, and once again from the clamp to the hanger strap.
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Solid Conduction Tutorial

The purpose of this session is to demonstrate the process of setting up and running a model with volume element solid conduction. Solid conduction can be used to model parts that can not be accurately modeled with shell elements.
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Temperature Image Mapping

Users can now use grayscale images as texture maps to define the temperature profile of parts. The images can be generated by a thermal imager or generated synthetically by photo editors like Adobe Photoshop®.
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Temperature Image Mapping with ASCII

Users can also use ASCII input as an alternate way to assign temperature values to different elements and parts.
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Temperature Mapping Tutorial Using ASCII Input

This tutorial is used to demonstrate the use of an ASCII input file as a way to assign temperature values to multiple elements and parts.

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Temperature Image Mapping

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The benefits of the import temperature profile feature include more complex and realistic boundary conditions, the ability to use thermal images to define boundary condition temperature profiles, and greater synergy between the product testing and simulation teams.

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