Defining the Solid Physics of a Flow Simulation

You can specify thermal effects, electromagnetic behavior, and radiation effects in the solid components in your simulation.

See Also
About Thermal Effects and Radiation in Fluid and Solid Physics
About Electromagnetism for Solid Physics
  1. From the Procedures section of the action bar, click Physics .
  2. Optional: Enter a descriptive Name.
  3. From the State options, select Solid.
  4. Optional: Select Enable thermal effects to include the effects of heat energy in your simulation.
  5. Optional: From the Electromagnetics options, select Electric Potential to consider the effects of electric potential, or voltage, for the solid components in your model.
  6. Optional: From the Radiation model options, select the Surface-to-surface radiation model to consider radiation heat transfer in a diffuse-gray enclosure.

    By default, the radiation model calculates radiation using an ambient temperature of 300 K. You can change this temperature if the conditions in your simulation require a different ambient temperature.

  7. Optional: Select Enable rigid body motions to enable motion in six degrees of freedom for the rigid bodies in your simulation.
  8. Click OK.