Brick Attributes: Heat Flux

Description

Assigns a heat flux to selected faces of brick elements.

Applicable only to heat transfer analyses.

Models uniform heat flow normal to the brick face. A positive flux indicates heat flowing out of the element. A negative flux indicates heat is flowing in.

The heat flux can be scaled as a function of time and/or temperature.

Heat flux attributes are load case dependent.

Dialog

Value

Heat flux at the brick face surface.

Factor vs Time table

The table that scales heat flux as a function of time.

Applicable only to the transient heat solver.

Factor vs Temperature table

The table that scales heat flux as a function of temperature.

Applicable only to nonlinear heat transfer analysis.

Common Controls

Units

Energy/Time/Length2 (e.g., J/s/m2, Btu/s/in2).

See Also