conduction??URGENT!!
 

hi, i'm trying to simulate a 2D conduction model!for the BC i impose heating temperature for one side and cooling temperature on the other side!the two other walls are adiabatic!on fluxes report,normally i should have the same heat transfer flux on the two tempered walls (same dimensions) but the net flux is not null!! plz help i didn't find any explanation!! thx

Re: conduction??URGENT!!
 

dear Donia, let me know if the two temperatures that you impose are the same yhank you

Re: conduction??URGENT!!
 

hi charafeddine, temperatures are different unless how we 'll have the conduction! plz answer,it's so urgent!! thanks

Re: conduction??URGENT!!
 

you have to run this till you get zero net flux, that's how you know it's converged. the resiuals are not the main indications fro convergence

Re: conduction??URGENT!!
 

hi bashu, thanks for the idea!i tried it,the net flux is minimised but it can't reach 0,it's 0.02!! any other idea plz??

Re: conduction??URGENT!!
 

you wil not reach absolute zero, but if the error (differnece / inlet) is below 1% (depends on the error you want you may go to 0.1%) the solution is converged. also you should monitor temperature at a point (or line or surface) and make sure it's not changing with iteraion much (again depends on the error you can accept)

Re: conduction??URGENT!!
 

hi bashu, thanks a lot for your time and your patience!!last night i kept on trying and i reached an error of 0.1%!!every thing is ok:temperatures,fluxes,contours....!!it's perfect!! i owe you much!! thanks