{"id":361113,"date":"2024-04-08T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/contact-thermal-behavior\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T13:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:25:57","slug":"contact-thermal-behavior","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/contact-thermal-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact thermal behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am performing a transient thermal analysis on a mechanical model that has a lot of contacts. When converting it to a thermal model using the command, I get a number of warnings regarding my contact (and target) elements, saying they are not being converted to anything. I assume this means the contact surfaces are being treated as adiabatic. However, since I am working on steel, the heat transfer through contacts is definitely significant. I only found this PowerPoint Presentation (ansys.com)<\/a> on the topic, not really any guide on how to control the heat transfer properties in contacts. Is there a simple way to tell ansys how to treat the contacts during a thermal transient?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-361113","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansyscontact-1","topic-tag-ansys-transient-thermal-2","topic-tag-heat-transfer","topic-tag-warnings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t