How to create constant q heater?
 

In the chtMultiRegionFoam tutorials, the heaters have a hot face (such as the bottom of the T-shaped heater) set at constant temperature like 500K. Is it possible to make the heater have a constant output instead, such as 100 Watts? Thanks, Scot

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Bjorn

Hi Scot,

at the moment there is no solver for this problem but quite a few people are working on that issue.

Check out http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...egionfoam.html

or search the forum for "heat source"

Regards,
Toni

Thank you, Bjorn. I like the simplicity of your answer but as I have tried to implement it in /system/heater/changeDictionaryDict, the model runs fine but q is simply ignored. I cranked q up to 10,000W with no effect on T anywhere.

The code reads:
dictionaryReplacement {
T {
internalField uniform 293;
boundaryField {
".*" {
type compressible::turbulentTemperatureCoupledBaffleMix ed;
neighbourFieldName T;
K K;
heatSource power;
q uniform 10000;
value uniform 293; }}}

The stuff above "heatSource power" was already there and I get a crash if I remove any of it. Any idea why q is ignored? Thank you! Scot