Taking the advice from "thane" i have tried setting the temps as intitial conditions and ran the program. What the analysis it gives is confusing. The contour plot shows a uniform temp of 75....What the?? Seems as though the temperature entered using the intial conditions weren't even...
I understand what your saying, and I've done that already. Well, actually, I've tried to do it.
These are the steps that I used to input the data into ansys.
1. created the area(2D)
2. glue areas
3. input mat props
4. add element
5. mesh with mat props
6. loads on nodes - 1800F inner area...
it's not that i don't know the theory behind it, well i don't(enough anyway), but i'm also a novice at using ansys.
let me be more specific on the problem.....
the steel molds o.d.=5", i.d.=3.5", and l=36", and the ingot resulting is a solid 3" diam, 36" long rod. i just need to find out how...
Using ANSYS, I am trying to do an transient thermal analysis of a steel mold and molten alloy. The molten alloy(1800 F) is poured into the steel mold(1200 F) and is left to cool under natural convection at an ambient temp of 75 F. I need to determine how long it takes for the alloy to cool to...
