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Kalls

March 11, 2008 00:15

Time step

Hi,

how to calculate time step for Transient HeatTransfer problem.(i.e. Zero velocity).

Thanks

Kalls

Praveen. C

March 11, 2008 03:13

Re: Time step

Do a stability analysis of your numerical scheme to find out the time step restrictions. You could do a fourier stability analysis for example. The time step will depend on the heat conduction coefficient and grid step size dx.

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