HAI ALL,

I'm dealing with a model in which heat conductivity is different in radial and axial directions.Please can any one help me by telling the method of how i can specify different conductivity in radial and axial directions.

You've two solutions 1st more simple is to use (step) function in CEL 2nd to use a subroutine where the argument will be the radius and axial direction

Dear Vishnu,

Please contact the ANSYS CFX help desk and request information on how to setup an anisotropic thermal conductivity. This is a hidden feature of the solver since the 5.6 (or 5.7 release) that has not made it to the GUI yet.

Mac's approach is not valid because he is thinking about a position dependent isotropic thermal conductivity. You need to input data for the Thermal Conductivity Tensor, and the solver will compute the heat flux as

q = K_ij * grad (T)

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