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ABAQUS: How to calculate total Heat Loss over a face

ABAQUS: How to calculate total Heat Loss over a face

ABAQUS: How to calculate total Heat Loss over a face

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Hi,

I am currently performing a thermal steady state analysis in a fin for heat dissipation. The model is basically a cylinder with a Body Heat Flux [W/m3] as a thermal load and a fin attached to the cylinder. The fin has convection applied as an interaction in all its faces. My aim is to calculate the Heat [W] dissipated by each of the faces of the fin.

I know that the HFL will give me [W/m2] which I could multiply by each element area of the face but I am not to sure how to do this (I guess I would need a script?).

Maybe there is another simpler/more direct way to calculate the total heat loss dissipated by each face?

Thanks

RE: ABAQUS: How to calculate total Heat Loss over a face

Output variable RFLE should do the job. The sum of these nodal values.

Group nodes on the desired faces in a node set and request output with TOTALS (=sum) into the .dat file:
*Node Print, nset=region_nodes, Totals=yes
RFLE

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