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"shell they do not conduct heat or current through the thickness, and also no Seebeck and Peltier effect are possible."

So I want to know is whether there is a method in Workbench that can simulate thin-film thermoelectric cooler?(the thickness about 3.5 nm)

 

[dlooman]

Although that's very thin, if the geometry allows a hex mesh of 3D geometry it may still produce a good through thickness solution, even if the aspect ratio is huge.  There isn't an Ansys shell element with through thickness electrical properties.  If you didn't need the Seebeck/Peltier effect, electric contact could have been used.