Hi-
I'm trying to model a system where the power draw of the TEC is driven by a PID loop, such that the chip temperature is held constant. Seems as though a goal dependent dependency would be just the thing-- the help files discuss using such a beast, but it's not clear whether this functionality is available for the TEC element in flow simulation.
I've tried inputting an equation based on a SurfaceGoal, but it gets spit out as being "wrong number format"-- the syntax I tried is "=0.5+1.5 * (SG_1 - 293 )^2 / 40^2" , where SG_1 is a surface goal that shows up in the project tree.
Am I just messing up the syntax, or am I attempting the impossible?
Thanks,
Michael
checked your model, looks like a limitation, if you go to the surface heat gen and click on the fx, you can see that you can select the goal and then click "goal" to plug it into the equation. so it seems for thermo electric coolers, it can only be a constant.