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Convection

Lumped thermal element for heat convection

 

Description

Equations

Variables

Connections

Modelica Standard Library

Description

The Convection component models a linear heat convection between solid geometries and fluid flow over the solid using a convective thermal conductance controlled by an input signal.

Equations

Qflow=Qflowsolid=Qflowfluid=GcΔT

ΔT=TsolidTfluid

Variables

Name

Units

Description

Modelica ID

Qflow

W

Heat flow rate from solid -> fluid

Q_flow

ΔT

K

= solid.T - fluid.T

dT

Connections

Name

Description

Modelica ID

Gc

Real input; convective thermal conductance in WK

Gc

solid

HeatPort for solid

solid

fluid

HeatPort for fluid

fluid

Modelica Standard Library

The component described in this topic is from the Modelica Standard Library. To view the original documentation, which includes author and copyright information, click here.

See Also

Heat Transfer Components

Thermal Overview