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:

  1. Click (Generate Volume Mesh).
    Simcenter STAR-CCM+ executes the predefined automated mesh operation, Thermal Analysis - Polyhedral Mesh.
  2. Click (Run).
    The simulation runs for 350 iterations.
Open the predefined temperature scenes to visualize the temperature distribution in the manifold and the gas:
  1. Expand the Scenes node.
  2. Open the Fluid Temperature and Manifold Temperature scenes.
  3. In both scenes, right-click on a blank area and select Apply Representation to Displayers > Volume Mesh.
  4. Select the Fluid Temperature node and set Mesh Override to Hide All Meshes.
    The temperature distribution appears as shown below:



  5. Save the simulation.