Solidworks Thermal Analysis Question
Hello,
I want to see the temperature distribution due to heat conduction inside a steel rod with a length of 3 meters and cross section of 0.1 x 0.1 meters.
I apply a high temperature of 1000 degrees Celsius to one of the cross section faces of the steel rod but the SolidWorks Thermal analysis results seem weird because as can be seen in the picture I always get a single color of either blue or red though the entire steel rod. Even if the length of the rod is 100 meters, I still get no temperature difference throughout the heat conducting rod which certainly doesn’t make sense as in reality the temperature always drops as we get further away from the heat source…
So what I am missing here?
Thank you very much for your answer in advance.
2 Answers
Have you mentioned environment temperature. I am not sure of solidworks, but this may be reason. If it is okay let me try on ansys.
For temperature variation to happen in solid while conduction there should be two or more temperatures. Heat transfer rate Q/T is present when you give two temperature zone (T2-T1) ( You have given T1 but T2 is absent so while conduction under ideal state plain contour shows up). I have tried an example with 10 mm x 10 mm cross section of 100 mm long solid body. The temperature at one end is 150 deg C and 20 deg C. I have attached images showing the contours band of temperature variation.
