Product: Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: When defining surface heat flux, you can choose the new total flux option for the load distribution. This allows you to simply enter the total magnitude of flux applied over the surface. In previous releases, using the uniform distribution option, it was necessary to query the faces of the surface to find the total area and then divide the total flux by the surface area. With the new total flux option, you can simply enter the total magnitude of flux applied over the entire surface.
Description: When modeling surface heat flux, you usually know the total flux that will be applied to a face or surface of the model. In previous releases of Abaqus/CAE, this number had to be divided by the surface area before entering it into the Magnitude field of the Edit Load dialog box (using the existing Uniform option for Distribution). Now, with the Total Flux option (shown in Figure 8–5), you can directly enter the total magnitude of the flux.
Load module: Create Load; Category: Thermal, Types: Surface heat flux; select surfaces; Distribution: Total Flux
