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[Aki]

Can Ansys APDL extract a function of temperature distribution in space and time, and if so, how ?  Like T (x, y,z,t).?

SOS?,CAN SOMEONE HELP ME??

[greg2835]

Yes it can, though I don't remember the exact commands (refer to the APDL Command Reference doc). You can either extract temp at each node after the simulation has ran at each time step, or program it into the input file to store these values in state variables for each time step. Then you can output the info to a .txt file or something similar.

[Erik Kostson]

that should be possible, see perhaps *dim,*do, set, and *get commands - they are well documented in our help manual, and one can find examples there to (or on the internet on how they are used to extract results).
A pseudo script could be (unfortunately I can not provide any additional help as this requires some specific scripting from our side which I do not do and provide)
Pseudo-Script:
Create arrays to store results (*dim for array, and *get to get number of nodes and time steps, in order to size arrays)
Loop through time steps and nodes and store results in array using *get (this a double loop over time and nodes)
If one wants we can print those results to file (*mwrite)
Thank you

Erik