Thermal Stress Analysis with SOL 101

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to do a thermal stress analysis with SOL 101. The question is, do i have to define a Initial Temperature "TEMP(INITIAL)" for all the grid points in the model and then define TEMP(LOAD) for the points where a thermal load is applied?

Don.Graff · Accepted Answer

The easiest method is to use TEMPD to set a default temperature for both the initial and load temps... you can set each to the same value (so no delta-t for the full model), then use explicit TEMP definitions for the locations where the applied temp load is different (just use the same ID as the temp load default ID). Case Control: TEMP(INIT)=10 TEMP(LOAD)=20 . . . Bulk Data: TEMPD,10,100.0 TEMPD,20,100.0 TEMP,20,, and so on...