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Distributed Thermal Conductor

Multiple Thermal Conductor connecting Cuboid Node and Cuboid Shape with contact area of each node, calculated by their relative positions

  

Description

The Distributed Thermal Conductor component is used for connecting Cuboid (in Nodes) and Cuboid Shape (in Shapes) components.

This component can take account of contact area size between Cuboid and each node of the Shape.

Each contact area size is automatically calculated from both cuboid size and center positions of cuboid.

(Note: It cannot take account of relative rotation.)

When using this component, first, you must input same parameters as Cuboid into Node Property and Cuboid Shape into Shape Property with center position of cuboid.

Then, connect port_node to port_center of Cuboid and port_shapei to port_centeri of Cuboid Shape.

  

Equations

Contact area ratios Ac_Node[i] and Ac_Shape[i] are defined as follows.

 Ac_Nodei=AciA_Node Ac_Shapei=AciA_Shape

   

 Ac_Nodei=AciA_Node=1 Ac_Shapei=AciA_Shape=A_NodeA_Shape

 

Heat conductance G__off is used for the heat path without heat flow.

(For details, see Cuboid, Cuboid Shape, Thermal Conductor  help).

Variables

(For details, see Cuboid, Cuboid Shape, Thermal Conductor  help).

Connections

Name

Description

Modelica ID

port_node

Thermal port of Node side

port_node

port_shapei

i-th thermal port of Shape side

The total number of i is determined by Nodes_Shape[1]*[2]*[3]

port_shape

Parameters

Symbol

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

Material__Node

SolidPropertyData1

Solid material property data

Material_node

WmK

Material.k is the thermal conductivity of the material

Material_node.k

JkgK

Material.cp is the specific heat capacity of the material

Material_node.cp

kgm3

Material.rho is the density of the material

Material_node.rho

L__Node

1

m

Length of cubic

L_node

W__Node

1

m

Width of cubic

W_node

H__Node

1

m

Height of cubic

H_node

Position__Node

0,0,0

m

Center position of the Cuboid [X, Y, Z].

pos_node[3]

Material__Shape

SolidPropertyData1

Solid material property data

Material_node

WmK

Material.k is the thermal conductivity of the material

Material_node.k

JkgK

Material.cp is the specific heat capacity of the material

Material_node.cp

kgm3

Material.rho is the density of the material

Material_node.rho

L__Shape

1

m

Length of cubic

L_shape

W__Shape

1

m

Width of cubic

W_shape

H__Shape

1

m

Height of cubic

H_shape

Nodes__Shape

[5, 3, 3]

 

Number of nodes [L, W, H]

numNode3

Position__Shape

0,0,0

m

Center position of the CuboidShape [X, Y, Z].

pos_shape[3]

L__t

0.001

m

Optional. Threshold distance regarded as contacted

Lt

G__off

107

WK

Optional. Constant thermal conductance of material which is used for representing the path without heat flow

Goff

See Also

Heat Transfer Library Overview

Multiple Overview