{"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":"<p>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&nbsp;<a href=\"\/courses\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Lesson-3-Thermal-contact.pdf\">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":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["340256","49095"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.206.193.41"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1792"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_lock":["1712582707:233281"],"_bbp_topic_id":["361113"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["49095","340256"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["361469"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["361469"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-04-10 09:15:06"]},"test":"diego-sanchezwestinghouse-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/361113","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/361113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361114,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/361113\/revisions\/361114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}