{"id":319162,"date":"2023-11-23T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/simulating-skin-temperature-of-a-residual-limb-inside-a-prosthetic-socket\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:00:16","slug":"simulating-skin-temperature-of-a-residual-limb-inside-a-prosthetic-socket","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/simulating-skin-temperature-of-a-residual-limb-inside-a-prosthetic-socket\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulating Skin Temperature of a Residual Limb Inside a Prosthetic Socket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;ve been using Transient Thermal analysis on ANSYS Mechanical so far but I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if Mechanical is the right ANSYS software to be using this for.<\/p>\n<p>Can I get some advice on this please? Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: For clarity, previous studies that used FEA to predict skin temperature distribution have used Pennes&#8217; 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&#8217;m interested in, so internally the model doesn&#8217;t need to simulate blood perfusion, just the heat generated by it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-319162","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-prostheticsocket-1","topic-tag-skin-1","topic-tag-temparature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hi,I&#039;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. 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