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[Andrew Kinsella]

Hi,

I'm working on a project that requires the development of a finite element model to investigate the skin temperatures of a residual limb inside a prosthetic socket. I've been using Transient Thermal analysis on ANSYS Mechanical so far but I'm beginning to wonder if Mechanical is the right ANSYS software to be using this for.

Can I get some advice on this please? Thank you.

EDIT: For clarity, previous studies that used FEA to predict skin temperature distribution have used Pennes' Biological Heat Transfer Equation but I have seen on other forums that Fluent is best suited for this equation, not Mechanical. But in this project the skin temperature is really all I'm interested in, so internally the model doesn't need to simulate blood perfusion, just the heat generated by it. 

[Ashish Khemka]

Hi Andrew,

If you have internal heat generation data and want to find the temperature distribution then Mechanical can be used.

Regards,

Ashish Khemka