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[NoIdea08]

I would like to implement a temperature profile as a boundary condition along a wall in a curved channel. The profile should always be normal to the bottom wall and along the right wall. The problem is that i cant use the y coordinate as a reference since the channel is curved.

How can i implement a temperature profile which is depended on the distance from the bottom wall?

[SVV]

Hello Can you try to apply the thermal boundary condition as an expression w.r.t to the coordinate perpendicular to bottom wall ( the direction along which you need the temperature variation)
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[Rob]

If you know the temperature through the solid, can you skip that part and just apply that value to the "wet" side of the wall?

[NoIdea08]

Thank you very much for your help. Unfortunately i still couldn't figure out a way to implement a temperature profile.
@SVV: Yes this is what i need. A cordinate which is perpendicular to the bottom wall. But i still cant figure out how to express this using expressions. I tried to get the distance from a boundary zone but used the wrong syntax --> ElementWallDistance('bottom_wall)
Could you maybe tell which is the correct way to express the distance from a specific boundary zone/ wall?
Thank you very much!

[Rob]

It's not quite that simple as the data isn't known other than in the near wall cell. You need a UDF to move from the wall facet and calculate the cell centre distance. That's not going to be easy.