{"id":42626,"date":"2020-04-09T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/non-constant-parameter-in-ansys-mechanical\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T17:31:10","slug":"non-constant-parameter-in-ansys-mechanical","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/non-constant-parameter-in-ansys-mechanical\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-constant parameter in ANSYS Mechanical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Community,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am trying to use a non-constant film coefficient for convection boundary condition. I know the thermal resistance of my heat sink, lets call it &#8220;Rhs&#8221;. I want to define the film coeffcient as 1\/(Rhs*Area). I have parametrized the geometry and have parameters for area. For Rhs, I want to add a new parameter. Workbench is allowing me to only insert a dimensionless\/constant parameter. Am I missing something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-42626","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["14806"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["954"],"_bbp_subscription":["248464"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["42626"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","174245"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["110852"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["110852"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-04-09 21:57:48"]},"test":"kashokbh"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/42626","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\/42626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}