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Old   September 19, 2012, 15:33
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Hello everybody,

I am solving a thermal stress analysis problem in OpenFOAM. In my case, there is an initially undeformed cube subjected to a uniform temperature rise ΔT=T-Tr
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As per my understanding, for this problem I do not need to solve energy equation. Does it means that I need to give some fix scalar value of the temperature in momentum equation for solving stresses due to temperature rise only?

I appreciate if anyone could help me to understand the case.


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Hi Sangeeta,

Yes you are correct that since you know the temperature distribution you do not need to solve the energy equation. And then you would subtract the thermal stress term grad(3*K*alpha*deltaT) from the momentum equation.

However, to save you changing the code you could just set fixedValue T boundary conditions and solve the energy equation using solidDisplacementFoam or elasticThermalSolidFoam, it probably wouldn't add much computation time and will give you the same temperature and displacement distributions.

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Hi Sangeeta,

Yes you are correct that since you know the temperature distribution you do not need to solve the energy equation. And then you would subtract the thermal stress term grad(3*K*alpha*deltaT) from the momentum equation.

However, to save you changing the code you could just set fixedValue T boundary conditions and solve the energy equation using solidDisplacementFoam or elasticThermalSolidFoam, it probably wouldn't add much computation time and will give you the same temperature and displacement distributions.

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Hi Philip,

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I am using elasticThermalSolidFoam for this case. Do you think that only fixing temperature in T boundary condition is fine to get good results. Because I can only fix temperature in boundary patches for e.g.

TOP
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform 100;
}
BOTTOM
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform 100;
}
LEFT
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform 100;
}
RIGHT
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform 100;
}
FRONTANDBACK
{
type fixedValue;
value uniform 100;
}

Does it means it rising uniform temperature in whole cube geometry?

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Hi Sangeeta,

If you fix the boundary patch temperatures and then set the ddtScheme for T to be steadyState then the internal temperature field will be uniform 100.

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Hi Philip,

Thanks a lot for the information. I will try this.

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