Who is the course for

This course is designed for engineers wishing to analyse the steady-state or transient thermal response of structures.

Duration

2 days

Course Aims

• To become familiar with the elements and material properties required for heat transfer analyses.
• To understand which heat transfer mechanisms are important for a particular analysis and how to model them.
• To understand when thermal analyses become nonlinear.
• To become familiar with the solution controls required for nonlinear and transient thermal analyses.
• To understand how to interpret and display pertinent results.

Topics covered

• Introduction
• Fundamental concepts
• Steady state heat transfer
• Considerations for non-linear analysis
• Transient analysis
• Complex, time and spatially-varying boundary conditions
• Additional convection/heat flux loading options and simple thermal/flow elements
• Radiation heat transfer
• Phase change analysis
• Coupled field analysis
• Thermal contact