Running the Thermal Analysis
Run the predefined thermal analysis to obtain the steady-state temperature distribution. Later on, for thermal strain computation, you supply the computed temperature to the FE Stress solver.
Generate the volume mesh and run the thermal analysis:
- Click
(Generate Volume Mesh).
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ executes the predefined automated mesh operation, Thermal Analysis - Polyhedral Mesh. - Click
(Run).
The simulation runs for 350 iterations.
Open the predefined temperature scenes to visualize the temperature distribution in the manifold and the gas:
- Expand the Scenes node.
- Open the Fluid Temperature and Manifold Temperature scenes.
- In both scenes, right-click on a blank area and select .
- Select the Fluid Temperature node and set Mesh Override to Hide All Meshes.The temperature distribution appears as shown below:
- Save the simulation.