Hello everyone,
I ma new to Simscale, I require some guidance for a air cooling analysis of a Copper bus bar (rectangular shape). What I want to do is the analysis of a Copper bus bar used for high voltage DC current distribution, as it will get hot so there will be air coming directly on the face of bus bar where current is applied. I already know the maximum temperature from a thermal analysis done on MATLAB but we want to visualise the air flow and how much is bus bar cooled at certain velocity and temp of air as well. I am just struggling with how can I simulate the free stream air coming at the face of bus bar where current is applied. Any suggestions to follow right path will be helpful.
Hey yovan_kumar,
Thank you for posting on the forum.
Could you share the link to your project here so we can take a look?
Best,
Satvik
Hi Shenoy thanks for the reply. Could you guide me how to share the project because its asking for username or email id of the person when i am clicking on the share or will it work if I directly send the Workbench link?
Hey yovan_kumar,
I can see your project now. The model you have right now is a boundary model of your bus bar, right? In order to study cooling, you are using the right conjugate heat transfer analysis. However, in order to simulate the air flow, you need something called flow regions in addition to the boundary model that you have. You can create this as follows: How to Create Flow Volume Extraction? | Knowledge Base | SimScale
Assign the temperature values you know to the boundary faces of the model and the flow parameters to the flow region faces, and your results should give you an idea about the cooling effects.
Here is an easy tutorial for a CHT analysis: Conjugate Heat Transfer in U-Tube Heat Exchanger | SimScale This should help you get a brief idea of how you can implement a similar setup for your model.
Let us know if you need more help on this!
Best,
Satvik
Thanks for the guidance I will go through this.
