I'm looking to analyze a fixture that will be mounted in ground and is subjected to solar radiation. I'd like to see the temperature of the fixture over time, and how it changes depending on time of day. In Solidworks Flow Simulation there is an option to select time of day and location for solar radiation. Is it possible to do a time dependent study, where the solar radiation setting for time of day is automatically incremented? Or is the best method to do several steady-state analyses, manually inputting different times of day? Thank you.
you can definitely do the steady state option
have you tried switching to a transietn analysis and seeing if the components of solar radiation have "FX" indicating that they could be changed with time?
you could also use a parametric study to just rotate your part instead of changing the parameters of the solar radiation if you go with the steady state option
i'd recommend putting this in the flow sim category