I'm trying to perform a thermal analysis to see how cables affect the conduits and its surroundings. I would like to put currents through the conductor but do not know how to convert ampacity to heat flux. So I tried to set the conductor temperature as 110 deg C. However, it shows that it's not affecting the surroundings because of how it is mated. How do you mate the cables and ducts so it touches the bottom of the conduit without having any interferences? In addition, how do I create the cables so that it touches together and forms a triangle? and then using this to load into the ducts and have the bottom of the triangle touch the bottom of the duct without interferring?
also, does solidworks allow you to set ur model in an environmental setting. for instance, my model is in room temperature and I want to include this in my analysis showing how room temperature affects the temperature of the cable.
Thanks!
Haven't looked at your model but a couple things.
For the heat input, a temp or a power is most traditional. If you care about the loss over the length, you'll need to split the body into multiple prices and apply lower and lower heat along the part. In flow simulation you could model this directly with joule heating. You would need the ec module.
Regarding the environment, sim thermal does t know anything about the environment. All faces not touching or with no boundary condition need to have a convection coefficient applied to them to simulate an environment. In flow this isn't the case. You just input the environment.
Regarding your model. If you can't find a mating solution. I would recommend building a model for analysis that meets your needs. I use a lot of multibody parts for this. Tangent mates may be helpful to you. You can also use the cavity feature to trim parts with other parts to rove interferences.