Hello,
For part of a school project I'm trying to see how effective the fan and ventilation setup I made for this box I made is (see attached picture). I'm trying to get the temperature of those "bricks" you see inside so that I can see if they're overheating. My constraint is that I only have access to the Flow Simulation module, no HVAC or thermal analysis or anything else useful.
With that said, the way I'm currently modeling this scenario is setting up the bottom holes as internal fans, and the outside rectangular faces as environmental pressures (they're vents), and doing an internal analysis. My issue is that I don't know how to setup the conditions on the bricks because they start off at some initial temperature, and change from there. The way I wrongfully had it set up was placing a wall condition on the bricks that specified a constant temperature, but this doesn't work of course since the bricks will never change temperature then, and that scenario instead basically gives me the surrounding temperature distribution due to a constant heat source.
What are my options for monitoring the temperature of the brick inside this enclosure, given that the brick starts off with some initial temperature? Can it be done with just flow simulation?
Thanks
Flow Simulation does everything you want provided you setup the problem correctly.
If you want thermal analysis in solids you have to check the thermal option when you setup the study.
You can set as Surface Goals the temperature of the surface bricks, you can set the fluid temperature at the bricks surface as well as the solid temperature at the bricks surface if the thermal option is checked.
So where do you have the heat sources? I saw there radiative surfaces, where are they? All you need is a heat source and an initial fluid temperature which may be 20 deg C for example.