1. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Section 14 Loads and Boundary Conditions Thermal Work Bench

2. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Thermal Workbench This workbench is used to apply loads and boundary conditions for thermal analysis. Applications | Analysis | Thermal SimLab Thermal workbench has the following tools to define loads and boundary conditions Initial Temperature Temperature Flux Convection Heat Source

3. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Initial Temperature This tool is used to apply initial temperature condition for thermal analysis.

4. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Temperature This tool is used to apply temperature boundary condition. Spatial varying temperature can be applied.

5. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Flux This tool is used to apply heat flux load. Spatial varying flux loads can be applied. Shell direction can be defined.

6. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Convection This tool is used to apply convection loads – Film Coefficient and Sink Temperature. Spatial varying film coefficient and temperature can be applied. Shell direction can be defined. Mapping from spatial varying data to selected elements can be done either by closest point or weighted distance method. The reference for mapping can be either element centroid or element nodal.

7. Copyright © 2010 Altair Engineering, Inc. All rights reserved.Altair Proprietary and Confidential Information Heat Source This tool is used to apply nodal heat flux load. Spatial varying nodal flux loads can be applied.