Defining the thermal boundary conditions like temperature, surface heat flux, convective heat flux etc. varying with respect to either time,x,y, or z co-ordinates can be done either by using table upload or defining formula. Variation with respect to multiple entities can only be done using formula. Both cases are discussed step by step below:
Table upload
An example below shows how to define a varying temperature over time via table upload.
Create a .csv file having time and temperature values in first and second column separated by a delimiter (compatible: comma, semicolon, tab, space) respectively. An example below shows a .csv file data separated with comma delimited.
Using any transient thermal or uncoupled thermomechanical analysis case, create a new temperature boundary condition and click table upload button () than click upload file (). A Upload CSV file window will pop up as shown in the figure below. Click Choose file and select your file. Give it a name (optional). Select Separator(Comma in our case). Next click Upload file.
Click button to see the uploaded data whose column should look well separated as shown in the figure below (if both column values are not separated than it means that the selected Separator (delimiter) wasn’t right at the time of upload e.g. using Semicolon as separator for file having column separated with Comma).
Once the file is uploaded, you will return to boundary condition panel with the uploaded file as shown in the figure below.
Highlighted in red are the columns for independent and dependent quantities (time and temperature in current case respectively). This is set to 1 and 2 respectively since our file contain time and temperature values in first and second column respectively.
Highlighted in green is the Interpolation criteria which is set to linear means the data will be interpolated linearly. One can also choose logarithmic or none if required.
Highlighted in blue is the Left-sided Extrapolation criteria which is set to linear. In current case it would mean that any value of temperature for time values below 0.5 second will be increased linearly to 300 K.
Highlighted in orange is the Right-sided Extrapolation criteria which is set to constant. In current case it would mean that any value of temperature for time values above 2 seconds will remain constant following the last value i.e. 400 K.
That’s it! your time dependent temperature is now defined. You can perform the same procedure if you want to define variation of your Convective heat flux, Surface heat flux or Volume heat flux based on either of the available quantities i.e.
You can also define a thermal boundary condition change over time, x, y, z co-ordinate by clicking formula button (). A picture below shows the variable surface heat flux over x, y, and time.
With a table upload you can only define the change based on only a single dependency i.e. either x,y,z or time. In order to do it with multiple dependencies, you have to use formula. An example project for the formula in this post describes how to apply the surface heat flux with both position and time dependency. You can use something similar for temperature also.
Hope this helps. If you have any other question/s, feel free to ask.
I am trying to set up a time dependant pressure load with a csv table just as you described but it’s not working. I get a “An error occured” message as soon as I launched the simulation:
Seems like I can’t see your project. If it’s not public, please share it with our support mentioning your problem and I will try to get back to you with a solution there.
Hi @ahmedhussain18 ,
Yes exactly, I am trying to see if I can squeeze my model back and forth by pumping from the inside (hence the negative pressure). I was able to apply a negative constant pressure on the inside surface but when I am trying to do the same with a time dependant pressure load, I have an error…
If you could tell me what to do to make it work, that would be great !
I investigated your case. There seems to be a problem in your uploaded file. I copied your file data and created my own and it worked. Please have a look here: Polymer egg displacement - SimScale
Note also that I have used advanced solver rather than normal and nonlinearity being turned on. Though I think the pressure is not that high enough to incorporate geometric nonlinearity. But of course you can now this simulation setup and increase the pressure to make it fully nonlinear.
Hey @ahmedhussain18,
Thanks for the help! It was exactly what I was trying to do. However I don’t understand why my project is not working : our projects are exactly the same and mine is still not working…
Can you send me your csv file so that I can check if mine is different ?
Have you remeshed the model from the CAD file in my project or did you directly use the mesh I builded in my project ?
Thanks
Thanks @ahmedhussain18,
I’ll try with your files.
Thing is even when I try to put a constant pressure value (-250000 for example) , I get an error message.
I don’t understand why…
Now it’s working with the cvs file (the simulation is completed) but in the solution fields I don’t have any time step or frame. Do you know why ?? This is driving me crazy
Yes I also noticed that the non advanced solver is not going with pseudo timesteps. Right now not sure her why but that was also the reason why I switched to advanced. I will prefer to remain with advanced solver in this case.
I had a look yesterday and the only change I found out was that you have turned on the Line search method in the Numerics. You don’t need it, Turning it off will make it run.
Hello Ahmed
I was just trying to upload a temperature -time dependent CSV file, during which a sort of error got popped in which I got stuck can you help me out of this.
Hi @rakshit24,
I guess you are running a steady-state analysis - there is no time, thus time is not allowed as a parameter for a formula or tabulated value.
) than click upload file (
). A Upload CSV file window will pop up as shown in the figure below. Click Choose file and select your file. Give it a name (optional). Select Separator(Comma in our case). Next click Upload file.
button to see the uploaded data whose column should look well separated as shown in the figure below (if both column values are not separated than it means that the selected Separator (delimiter) wasn’t right at the time of upload e.g. using Semicolon as separator for file having column separated with Comma).
). A picture below shows the variable surface heat flux over x, y, and time.
