CST Thermalanalysis
CST Thermalanalysis
EM Thermal Co-Simulation
Workflow
-Material Settings
-Boundaries
-Losses
Examples
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Problem Type „Thermal“
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Thermal Material Properties
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Thermal Intersection check
For EM Simulation PEC materials always get priority over dielectrics, when
overlapping no boolean operation required
However, in the thermal solver, both PEC and dielectric are typically type normal
(finite thermal conductivity) and have to be intersected.
The thermal interaction flag checks, if all objects are properly intersected. This flag
has to be activated before EM solver starts. Template is added for conveniance.
Objects
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HF-Thermal coupling
Thermal material properties
and thermal boundary conditions
may be changed without deleting HF-results.
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Activate CST MWS losses as thermal sources
Examples:
5 W rms factor = 10
500 W rms factor = 1000
2mW rms factor = 0.004
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Convection + Radiation losses
Convection- and radiation-properties
can be assigned to a chain of faces.
Internally this is represented by a lossy
surface boundary condition, which is
temperature dependent .
Radiated power:
qR = σ (T-Tback)4 Area
with:
σ = σr σSB
σr : Emissivity 0...1
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Thermal HEX solver
Stationary current field
Thermal losses caused by
electric currents can be used as
a driving source for a thermal
problem (HF + LF and
Stationary currents)
Temperature distribution
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Heat Flow source values logfile
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Microwave oven from Delonghi
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Particle – Thermal coupling
Trajectory Temperature
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Outlook
Transient Thermal Simulation
Induction Cooker
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