Hello,
Context : I try to simulate the heating after friction of the brake pads on a disc. I already read that simscale doesn’t take into account the heating after friction, instead I want to simulate this with a surface heat flux boundary condition in a thermodynamic simulation with a mesh taken from the free 3D model bank of simscale.
Because the heating by friction is not considered, it is useless to simulate the circular motion of the disc but I wanted to simulate it to have a homogeneous temperature evolution in the disc and adding a convective heat flux to simulate the loss with the ambiant air contact.
My problem : I put the heat flux surface boundary condition on the surfaces of the brake pads in contact with the disc and, unfortunately, over time the heat flux only applies to the surface of the pad which rotates with the disc (while the pads are fixed with a fixed support condition). My project : SimScale Login and the run is the REFERENCE RUN one.
I suspect the numeric method that I didn’t try to change because I don’t know exactly how it works and the computing time that I risk to use depending on the method.
Thanks for your help
Matteo
