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[schettino]

I have to analyze a copper plate which is the target of an electron deposition, giving rise to a heat deposition. I have generated a heat distribution with an external software, and I would like to import it in Mechanical Ansys to study the thermal transient of the plate.

My problem is importing the heat distribution in Mechanical: as far as I understand, I have to use the Internal Heat Generation (Import data) feature. It requires an xml file. First of all I would like to know which should be the organization of the data in such xml file. Secondly, how can I match the mesh of the plate in Ansys with the points in which I have calculated the heat distribution?

[Ashish Khemka]

Use External Data module to import the data from .xml file and then link to the Mechanical setup.

External Data (ansys.com)
Error on reading External Data file (.csv) on Ansys Mechanical ÔÇö Ansys Learning Forum
Regards Ashish Khemka