COUPLED THERMAL AND MECHANICAL ANALYSIS USING ICEPAK/FLUENT AND PATRAN/NASTRAN

摘要

This paper describes a procedure for transferring temperature data from the CFD software Icepak and Fluent to a new mesh in the finite element pre- and postprocessor Patran. The maximum capacity for this procedure is dependent on both the number of exported nodes and the nodes in the new mesh. For a Dell 620 computer, the reasonable maximum number of exported nodes is somewhere between 300,000 to 600,000 nodes, together with a new mesh of 40,000 to 100,000 nodes.