Creating Thermal Gradient Boundary Condition?????

- January 3, 2020 at 2:49 pm
  
  erickdiaz019
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  
  I had a question regarding how to specify a specific boundary condition. I am interested in creating a temperature profile boundary condition for a part, where the temperature varies, throughout the radius of a cylindrical part. The part actually contains an extruded hole in the middle, so the temperature boundary condition would be a temperature profile between the inside surface and the outside surface. For the temperature values, I have real experimental data. Is there some way to import this data, to make the temperature profile boundary condition? I am using Ansys Thermal (Steady State & Transient).
  
  Think of the part as a thick-walled pipe. Where the wall thickness is greater than the inside diameter. And I want the initial temperature to be a function of radius - for which I have data.
- January 20, 2020 at 1:07 am
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  Temperature is the solution of a Steady State Thermal Analysis.
  
  You can apply boundary conditions such as the inside temperature and the outside temperature and solve for the temperature through the thick wall. You can compare the profile of the solution with the profile of the experimental data. Does the part have multiple layers of different materials?
  
  If you want to compute the strain caused by the temperature profile, you can import the temperature profile as External Data, and then use Static Structural to compute the strain.