Temperature

Analysis Types: Thermal Analysis

This is the primary state variable in most thermal simulations. It is analogous to displacement in a structural optimization This response is useful when trying to control the temperature only in a small region of the design area. Nodes for this design response should be chosen carefully as the optimizer may create mechanisms or disconnected structures if the chosen region is too small.

For temperature, the following table shows the allowed combinations between strategy and the items OBJ_FUNC and CONSTRAINT with C for controller-based optimization and S for sensitivity-based optimization.

Remarks

1. Only nodes of the node group (ND_GROUP) will be applied in the calculation of the temperature.

Definition

The design response (DRESP) for TEMPERATURE is defined like:

DRESP
  ID_NAME  = DRESP_TEMPERATURE
  DEF_TYPE = SYSTEM
  TYPE     = TEMPERATURE
  ND_GROUP = node_group
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