[saisanthoshm88]

I’m currently working on a electronics cooling problem with some embeded system component.

I had a question in modeling the Power sources in the system.

The information available is that these power sources are typical battery units generating a power of 12 KW .

When these are meshed in the fluid domain the case is that the bounding surfaces of these power sources wont be meshed fully due to the existence of other adjacent surfaces that interrupt the fluid ( Air) flow there.
This is quite obvious and isn’t a problem at all.

But my question is that though these surfaces bounding the power sources get only partly meshed while in the fluid domain, is it fine to define this energy of 12 KW in terms of a surface heat flux (or) do I need to model these power sources as solid domains and then add them as volumetric heat sources to the simulation.
Please suggest upon the right approach