NX Thermal - Transient
NX Thermal - Transient
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Hi,
I am trying to use NX Thermal to analyse a brake system. I would like to simulate the entire system over a certain amount of time, say 15 seconds, however I would only like to apply a thermal load to the rotor for a smaller time period (say 2 seconds) to simulate the braking itself.
Can this be done, and if so, how?! I've had a look around the different settings, using transient and steady state (I'm assuming transient is what I need) and while I can get the whole simulation to run for a specified time I can't get the load to only be on for a short time.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thank you
I am trying to use NX Thermal to analyse a brake system. I would like to simulate the entire system over a certain amount of time, say 15 seconds, however I would only like to apply a thermal load to the rotor for a smaller time period (say 2 seconds) to simulate the braking itself.
Can this be done, and if so, how?! I've had a look around the different settings, using transient and steady state (I'm assuming transient is what I need) and while I can get the whole simulation to run for a specified time I can't get the load to only be on for a short time.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thank you





RE: NX Thermal - Transient
It is then fairly straight forward to just put in time values that you require the load to be on and then for other times just set it to 0. The whole thing interpolates automatically so you need only minimal entries unless you've got a complex loading pattern going on.