{"id":355675,"date":"2024-03-06T15:34:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T15:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-do-partial-volume-heat-generation\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T15:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T15:34:41","slug":"how-to-do-partial-volume-heat-generation","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-do-partial-volume-heat-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to do partial-volume heat generation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to have part of the structure do a constant value heat generation. This part is inside the structure (shown below).<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know how to select this part from the whole structure for heat generation?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/06-03-2024-1709738898-mceclip0.png\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can see that there is a function option for &#8216;Internal Heat Generation&#8217;, but seems like I cannot manually input any function.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/06-03-2024-1709739049-mceclip1.png\"><\/p>\n<p>I feel like the most intuitive way is to define the self-heat region and select it in &#8216;Internal Heat Generation&#8217;, but I do not know how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Selecting the whole structure and use an expression to define the heat-generation part could be another intuitive way, but I do not know how to do it, either.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Really need some help????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-355675","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-internal-heat-generation","topic-tag-mechanical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["189408","20905"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.206.193.154"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["274"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["355675"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["20905","189408"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["355913"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["355913"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-03-07 15:10:26"]},"test":"dmarcher"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/355675","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\/355675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}