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Variable Thermal Conductor

Multiple Variable Thermal Conductor with normalized contact area ratio of each node, input from real vector signals.

  

Description

The Variable Thermal Conductor component is used for connecting two Multi- components.

This component can take account of normalized contact area ratio between port_a and port_b input from real vector signal, Ac.

The following image illustrates the behavior of the Variable Thermal Conductor component.

Equations

Qflowi=GidTi

 Gi= Material.kA LAciAci>0G__offelse

 dTi=T__aiT__bi

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

(For details, see Thermal Conductor help).

Variables

Symbol

Units

Description

Modelica ID

Qflowi

W

i-th heat flow rate from port a to port b

Q_flow[]

dTi

K

i-th temperature difference between port a[i] and port b[i]

dT[]

Gi

WK

i-th constant thermal conductance of material

G[]

(For details, see Thermal Conductor  help).

Connections

Name

Description

Modelica ID

port_ai

i-th thermal port of port a side

The total number of i is determined by Nodes of a

port_a[]

port_bi

i-th thermal port of port b side

The total number of i is determined by Nodes of b

port_b[]

Aci

Coefficient of normalized contact area ratio (0 to1)

The total number of i is determined by Nodes

Ac[]

Parameters

Symbol

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

Material

SolidPropertyData1

Solid material property data

Material

WmK

Material.k is the thermal conductivity of the material

Material.k

JkgK

Material.cp is the specific heat capacity of the material

Material.cp

kgm3

Material.rho is the density of the material

Material.rho

Nodes

2

 

Number of nodes

numNode

A

1

m2

Area of the contact surface between nodes

A

L

1

m

Distance between nodes

L

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