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[xiaojiangyou]

Hi,

I'm running a transient heat transfer process in ANSYS TRANSIENT THERMAL module. Is it possible to get the time history of the averaged temperature over a surface? 

Thanks so much for your time and efforts!

Best

Xiaojiangyou

[peteroznewman]

I picked a face in this Transient Thermal to plot the Temperature results. The Tabular Data has the time history of the average for the face.

[xiaojiangyou]

Hi peteroznewman,

Thanks sooooo much for your help! I did open the tabular data but I couldn't see the average value. Is it possible that there are some settings I need to make before making the temperature contour?

Really appreciate it!

Xiaojiangyou

[peteroznewman]

Average was added to all results in one of the recent versions of ANSYS. You don't have it in your version. Can you upgrade to the latest version of ANSYS?

[xiaojiangyou]

Thanks so much again. I'll try update to the latest version.

Besides, I'm also wondering is there a way to output the time history of each node temperature on that surface? I probably want to weighted average to that surface in the future.

 

 

[peteroznewman]

You can Export the temperature of every node on the face at any specific time of the solution by right click on the Temperature result and selecting Export.

I know it is possible to write APDL code in a Command object in the Solution branch that will cause a file to be written with every time step, but I don't know the APDL commands myself. Perhaps someone else can provide that.

[xiaojiangyou]

I see. Thanks so much!