{"id":360055,"date":"2024-04-02T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/360055\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T14:54:57","slug":"360055","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/360055\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Need help with moving heat source on uneven surface with apdl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;You seem to be apply a heat generation rate where it would seem to be more typical to apply a surface heat flux.&nbsp; With a heat generation rate the size of the element will determine how much heat you are applying.&nbsp; The volume of the elements in the mesh you show will result in a big variation in the amount of heat.&nbsp; The geometry calculations you do in the&nbsp; *do loop seem too simple to apply to heat load moving over the surface of the gear teeth.&nbsp; Could you explain how they are supposed to work?&nbsp; If the laser is moving circumferentially at a constant rate along the surface as it goes up and down the gear teeth?&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-360055","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/360055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/360055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}