Hi !<\/p>\n
I’ve been trying to simulate the cooling of a solar panel using Fluent Flow, a steady state thermal and a transient thermal. What I did was create the geometry of the solar panel before conducting a thermal analysis (a steady state thermal at first, and then a transient thermal analysis to see the temperatures of the solar panel over time). After that, I used Fluent Flow to create a channel below and above the solar panel, the below chanel meant to represent a conduite for air cooling, and the above channel is meant to represent the flow of water above the solar panel. Both of these were done in two separate projects and I introduced the solution from Fluent Flow as the setup for the steady state thermal analysis (to achieve the cooling).<\/p>\n
Both methods worked when I redid the steady state thermal analysis, and they worked for the transient thermal analysis too, but only for short periods of time. For some reason, when I try to simulate the transient thermal analysis for longer periods of time (twenty-three hours, to be specific) the cooling isn’t working anymore and the analysis results showcases temperatures that are similar to the non-cooled solar panel. I asked a couple of people and they said the cooling is supposed to work, even for longer periods of time, but for some reason, I am not getting those results.<\/p>\n
Any idea as to why this could be?<\/p>\n
The analysis setup for the solar panel includes two convection settings (one for the bottom layer of the solar panel and one for the top layer) as well as radiation settings (for those two layers as well) as well as heat flux for three other layers.<\/p>\n
If anyone could help me with this, I’d appreciate it a whole lot! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-354548","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-transient-thermal-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["340267","88"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.52.43.10"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["735"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_lock":["1709556447:56641"],"_bbp_topic_id":["354548"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["88","340267"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["355240"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["355240"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-03-04 18:29:03"]},"test":"bghsnoorgmail-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/354548","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/354548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355143,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/354548\/revisions\/355143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}