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Defining Thermal Contact Resistance

To define thermal contact resistance:

  1. In a thermal study, right-click Connections and select Contact Set.

    The Contact Set PropertyManager appears.

  2. Set Type to Thermal Resistance.
  3. In Faces, Edges, Vertices for Set 1 , select the desired entities associated with one or more components.
  4. In Faces for Set 2 , select the desired faces from another component.
  5. Select Thermal Resistance and do the following:
    1. Set Units to the unit system you want to use.
    2. Select Total or Distributed and type a value.
  6. Under Advanced, select Node to surface or Surface to surface.

    The Node to node option does not allow you to specify a thermal resistance as connected nodes of touching faces will have the same temperature (perfect conduction).

  7. Click .


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