Total Heat Flux or Total current through a section??

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Total Heat Flux or Total current through a section??

SachinSA93 (Mechanical)

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20 Jun 18 12:16

I am solving a Electric Thermal coupled analysis. Here i want the total current passing through a conductor. In the output requests all i get is electric current density and ECDA which seem like nodal properties. Is there a way to get the total current(Heatflux) passing through a section ??

Mustaine3 (Mechanical) · Answer 1 · 2018-06-21 10:47:42

Make a node set of this section. Then you can sum that with a field output report or use *Node Print with totals=yes.

SachinSA93 (Mechanical) · Answer 2 · 2018-06-21 13:10:56

Hello Mustaine3,
Thank you for your response.

The outputs i have are ECD (electric current density ) and the other one is ECDA (Electric current density multiplied by area).

Am i supposed to sum the ECDA values for the nodes lying on the section??

The input current was 100A
Summed total ECDA is 4400A

I must be doing something wrong.
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Please have a look into the XY plots attached.

Thank you

Mustaine3 (Mechanical) · Answer 3 · 2018-06-25 11:15:26

I'm not familiar with electric analysis. I've just mentioned a method that works for specific nodal results in thermal analysis.

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