Heat Transfer and Thermal-Stress

Analysis with Abaqus

Day 1

• Lecture 1: Introduction to Heat Transfer

• Lecture 2: Material Properties and Element Technology
• Workshop 1: Reactor: Properties and Elements
• Lecture 3: Thermal Analysis Procedures
• Workshop 2: Reactor: Analysis Procedures
• Lecture 4: Thermal Loads and Boundary Conditions
• Workshop 3: Reactor: Loads and Boundary Conditions
• Lecture 5: Thermal Interfaces
• Workshop 4: Reactor: Thermal Contact and Analysis

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Day 2

• Lecture 6: Thermal-Stress Analysis

• Lecture 7: Sequentially Coupled Thermal-Stress Analysis
• Workshop 5: Reactor: Stress Response
• Lecture 8: Fully Coupled Thermal-Stress Analysis
• Workshop 6: Disc Brake Analysis
• Lecture 9: Adiabatic Analysis

Heat Transfer and Thermal-Stress Analysis with Abaqus

Additional Material

• Appendix 1 Heat Transfer Theory

• Appendix 2 Forced Convection
• Workshop 7: Continuous Casting
• Appendix 3 Cavity Radiation
• Workshop 8: Radiation in a Finned Surface
• Appendix 4 Thermal Fatigue

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 Introduction to Heat Transfer
Lecture 1

L1.2

Overview

• Introduction
• Heat Transfer Basics
• Heat Transfer in Abaqus
• Heat Transfer Features in Abaqus
• Examples

Heat Transfer and Thermal-Stress Analysis with Abaqus

 Material Properties and
Element Technology
Lecture 2

L2.2

Overview

• Thermal Material Properties

• Heat Transfer Element Library
• Workshop

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 Thermal Analysis Procedures
Lecture 3

L3.2

Overview

• Steady-State Analysis
• Transient Analysis
• Nonlinear Analysis
• Output
• Workshop

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Thermal Boundary Conditions and Loads
Lecture 4

L4.2

Overview

• Overview
• Prescribed Temperatures
• Prescribed Fluxes
• Film Conditions
• Radiation to the Ambient
• Natural Boundary Condition
• Initial Conditions
• Workshop

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 Thermal Interfaces
Lecture 5

L5.2

Overview

• Thermal "Contact"
• Introduction: Heat Transfer Across Interfaces
• Thermal Interaction Usage
• Gap Conduction
• Gap Radiation
• Workshop

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 Thermal-Stress Analysis
Lecture 6

L6.2

Overview

• Analogy Between Heat Transfer and Stress Analysis

• Thermal-Stress Procedures
• Element Selection

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 Sequentially-Coupled
Thermal-Stress Analysis
Lecture 7

L7.2

Overview

• Sequentially Coupled Analysis

• Thermal-Stress Modeling Considerations
• Example
• Methods for Assigning Temperature Data
• Direct
• User subroutine
• Output database/results file
• Temperature Application for Solid Elements
• Temperature Application for Shell Elements
• Temperature Application for Beam Elements
• Summary
• Workshop

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 Fully Coupled Thermal-Stress Analysis
Lecture 8

L8.2

Overview

• Full Temperature-Displacement Coupling

• Element Selection
• Contact Interaction
• Examples of Fully Coupled Analyses
• Rigid Bodies in Thermal-Stress Analysis
• Heat Transfer Analysis with Abaqus/Explicit
• Workshop

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 Adiabatic Analysis
Lecture 9

L9.2

Overview

• Adiabatic Analysis
• Adiabatic Analysis Examples

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 Heat Transfer Theory
Appendix 1

A1.2

Overview

• Summary of Governing Equations for Conduction

• Constitutive Relation—Fourier's Law
• Thermal Energy Balance—Differential Form
• Thermal Energy Balance—Equivalent Variational Form
• Finite Element Approximation
• Transient Analysis
• Eulerian Formulation for Convection
• Thermal Radiation Formulation
• Adiabatic Thermal-Stress Analysis
• Nonlinear Solution Scheme

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 Forced Convection
Appendix 2

A2.2

Overview

• Example: 1-D Convective Heat Transfer

• Stabilization
• Convective/Diffusive Element Library
• Abaqus Usage
• Workshop

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 Cavity Radiation
Appendix 3

A3.2

Overview

• Thermal Radiation
• Cavity Radiation
• Fully Implicit Cavity Radiation Approach
• Open vs. Closed Cavities
• Cavity Radiation and Viewfactor Calculations
• Radiation Symmetry
• Radiation Motion
• Cavity Radiation Output
• Approximate Cavity Radiation Approach
• Workshop

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 Thermal Fatigue
Appendix 4

A4.2

Overview

• Thermal Fatigue
• Example

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