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Tutorial 5 - Heat Transfer

The document outlines a tutorial on thermal analysis using finite element analysis, focusing on determining temperature distribution and heat flow in structures. It describes steady state and transient thermal conditions, thermal loading factors, and provides a problem statement involving heat loss through a steel pipe insulated with different materials. The tutorial includes steps for conducting the analysis using Ansys software and emphasizes learning outcomes related to modeling, thermal loading, and result interpretation.

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Tutorial 5 - Heat Transfer

The document outlines a tutorial on thermal analysis using finite element analysis, focusing on determining temperature distribution and heat flow in structures. It describes steady state and transient thermal conditions, thermal loading factors, and provides a problem statement involving heat loss through a steel pipe insulated with different materials. The tutorial includes steps for conducting the analysis using Ansys software and emphasizes learning outcomes related to modeling, thermal loading, and result interpretation.

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Finite Element Analysis Lab

Tutorial 5

Personalized Learning
WILP

Heat Transfer Analysis


Thermal Analysis

Thermal analysis is used to determine the temperature distribution, thermal gradient, heat
flow and other such thermal quantities in a structure/component.

Thermal analysis can be steady state or transient,

• Steady state – implies that the loading conditions have settled down to a steady level,
with little or no time dependency.

Example: An iron that has already reached the desired temperature.

• Transient – implies that the loading conditions that are changing with time.

Example: A casting in the process of cooling down from molten metal to solid.
Thermal Analysis

Thermal Loading Conditions:


Temperature: Regions of the model where temperature are known.

Convections: Surface where heat is transferred to (or from) surroundings by means of


convection. (film coefficient and the bulk temperature of the surrounding fluid)

i) Free or Natural convection ii) Forced convection

Heat flux: Surface where the heat flow rate per unit area is known.

Heat flow: Points where the heat flow rate is known.

Heat generation: Regions where the volumetric heat generation rate is known.

Radiation: Surfaces where heat transfer occurs by means of radiation. (Emissivity, Stefan
Boltzmann constant).
Problem Statement
Hot fluid is passing through a steel pipe of 50 mm outer diameter and thickness of 2 mm. Temperature of the
fluid is of 80oC and the thermal conductivity of pipe material is of 40 W/moC. Polyethylene based insulator of
thermal conductivity 0.1 W/moC is used as the insulator to avoid the heat loss and to maintain room
temperature at the outer surface of the pipe. Determine the thickness of the insulator to maintain the outer
temperature as of 30oC. Also consider teflon based insulator of thermal conductivity 0.35 W/moC in the place
of polyethylene and compare the temperature changes at the outer surface of pipe. Consider 30 mm as the
length of pipe for analysis. Room temperature is 26oC. Convection Film Coefficient of air is 40 W/m2 oC.
STEPS
• Step 1: Create a working directory @ cloud desktop
• Step 2: Open the Ansys workbench software
• Step 3: Open Analysis System: Steady State Thermal Analysis
• Step 4: Create/Import Geometry
• Step 5: Set material property
• Step 6: Generate Mesh
• Step 7: Add constraints (Thermal inputs)
• Step 8: Solve
• Step 9: Result interpretation
• Step 10: Increase the insulation thickness and resolve until outer surface temperature
reaches desired value.
• Step 10: Validation
LEARNING OUTCOME
• How to model the geometry and assigning the material

• How to Assign thermal loading

• How to interpret the simulation results

• Validating the results


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