Calculating total heat load

[MartinH]

I have a structure between two surfaces of known temperature, and I want to know the total heat transfer (conduction) through the structure. It's easy enough to set up in Pro/MECHANICA (integrated mode), but I can't figure out where to find the total heat flow. I can get temperatures and flux values at any point, but I can't find any way to integrate across the whole surface, or get a total value.

This seems like it should be a trivial problem, so am I missing something?
Edited by: MartinH

 

[MartinH]

Any ideas?

 

[snu661e]

I am having the same issue. I have a complex assembly and want to see the boundry heat flow totals through different surfaces. I can also get the vectorized results out, but there doesn't seem to be any way to integrate all those vectors together into scalar ins and outs per surface. I would calculate this all myself if I could even get the vector values at different poisitions, but I can't even do that.





Any ideas?

 

[rjohns]

I too am having this problem. It seems like it should be really simple for PRO-E to get.

Is there NO ONE of 300+ views that knows how to get the total heat flow (flux, transfer, whatever)?

 

[jeletoma]

I have found only result for heat flux (mW/mm2) can be shown.
I dont know where to look results for power, heat transfer (mW)?

 

[jeletoma]

Results for heat flux (units mW/mm2) you can check for instance with:
boundary condition for new surface convestion condition!