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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical How to do partial-volume heat generation? Reply To: How to do partial-volume heat generation?

dlooman
Ansys Employee

It would be easiest and most accurate if you have geometry corresponding to the heated domain.  Then you could make a named selection for that body and issue the command below in a commands object:

BFE,named_selection_name,HGEN,,10  ! For a heat generation rate of 10

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