Heat flux vs heat flow rate - liml to inp node weighting

mdsimulationgroup

Hello,

I'm working on converting liml to Caclulix inp. In Mecway I assign a heat flux to a surface. This is converted to a CFLUX in the Caclulix file, which is based on the nodes.

How are the nodes weighted for the Caclulix heat flow rate?

Thanks,
Frank

Victor

At each node of an element face, it evaluates the following integral using Gauss quadrature:



i is the node.

N_i is the face's shape function for node i.

phi is the heat flux you specified.

If more than one face shares a node, Mecway sums the heat flow rate contributed by each face to give a single value per node to *CLOAD.