{"id":164288,"date":"2021-11-25T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/thermal-with-radiation-solution-output-viewfatcor-soomthing\/"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:16:55","slug":"thermal-with-radiation-solution-output-viewfatcor-soomthing","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/thermal-with-radiation-solution-output-viewfatcor-soomthing\/","title":{"rendered":"THERMAL WITH RADIATION &#8211; SOLUTION OUTPUT &#8211; VIEWFATCOR SOOMTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>Hi guys,<\/p>\n<p>I am carrying out a transient thermal analysis with exchange by radiation. From an Ansys tutorial I learned that to validate the accuracy of the results you need to check the &quot;Viewfactor Smoothing&quot; and make sure that the first 4 values are the same and the errors are very small (at least e-5).<\/p>\n<p>I need some more information on the meaning of these values.<\/p>\n<p>I also noticed an unexpected phenomenon: by improving the mesh the difference between the 4 initial values increases:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>MESH SIZE 50 mm<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedExternal embedImage\">\n<div class=\"embedExternal-content\">\n<a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/202\/2OISS09R0D8Z.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/202\/2OISS09R0D8Z.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-164288","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_old_reply_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_reply_anonymous_id":["false"],"_btv_view_count":["1393"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["164288"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["14","20905","160502"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["198683"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["198683"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-12-02 14:16:55"]},"test":"fabrypiro"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}