I'm looking to perform a thermal analysis of a mould tool inside a convection oven.
The oven will be operating at 110°C, and I want to know how long it'll take for the inside of my mould to reach this temperature also.
The moulded part in question will be carbon fiber; however, I don't think that should affect my analysis.
I know I need to do a transient analysis but I'm not sure what settings to apply.
I assumed it would be a case of establishing the initial temperature of all the mould faces, and then applying the temperature of the convection oven to the outside (red) faces only, but I can't seem to make this work.
Can anyone give me some pointers on where to go with this?
I can't find any relevant information in the simulation professional manual.
Assuming you're using Flow Simulation, your approach sounds right. I just tested this out by setting up a simulation of a simple cylindrical part. I set a boundary condition on the outer walls of the part to be 100C, the initial temperature of the entire domain to be 20C and I started a transient simulation. This is what the goal plot looks like for the point at the center of the part:
So it should be feasible as long as you're setting up your analysis correctly. Where are you running into problems?