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Heat Transfer

(To be removed) Solve conduction-dominant heat transfer problems with convection and radiation occurring at boundaries

Note

Domain-specific heat transfer workflow will be removed. Use Unified Modeling instead. For help migrating your existing code to the unified finite element workflow, see Migration from Domain-Specific to Unified Workflow.

In this workflow, you can only specify and store parameters belonging to thermal analysis.

Functions

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createpdeCreate a PDE model
thermalProperties(To be removed) Assign thermal properties of a material for a thermal model
internalHeatSource(To be removed) Specify internal heat source for a thermal model
thermalBC(To be removed) Specify boundary conditions for a thermal model
thermalIC(To be removed) Set initial conditions or initial guess for a thermal model
solveSolve structural analysis, heat transfer, or electromagnetic analysis problem
assembleFEMatricesAssemble finite element matrices
reduceReduce structural or thermal model
reconstructSolutionRecover full-model transient solution from reduced-order model (ROM)
linearize(To be removed) Linearize structural or thermal model (Since R2021b)
linearizeInput(To be removed) Specify inputs to linearized model (Since R2021b)
linearizeOutput(To be removed) Specify outputs of linearized model (Since R2021b)
interpolateTemperatureInterpolate temperature in thermal result at arbitrary spatial locations
evaluateTemperatureGradientEvaluate temperature gradient of thermal solution at arbitrary spatial locations
evaluateHeatFluxEvaluate heat flux of thermal solution at nodal or arbitrary spatial locations
evaluateHeatRateEvaluate integrated heat flow rate normal to specified boundary
findThermalProperties(To be removed) Find thermal material properties assigned to a geometric region
findHeatSource(To be removed) Find heat source assigned to a geometric region
findThermalBC(To be removed) Find thermal boundary conditions assigned to a geometric region
findThermalIC(To be removed) Find thermal initial conditions assigned to a geometric region

Objects

ThermalModel(To be removed) Thermal model object
ReducedThermalModelReduced-order thermal model (Since R2022a)
SteadyStateThermalResultsSteady-state thermal solution and derived quantities
TransientThermalResultsTransient thermal solution and derived quantities
ModalThermalResults Modal thermal solution (Since R2022a)

Properties

ThermalMaterialAssignment Properties(To be removed) Thermal material properties assignments
HeatSourceAssignment Properties(To be removed) Heat source assignments
ThermalBC Properties(To be removed) Boundary condition for thermal model
NodalThermalICs Properties(To be removed) Initial temperature at mesh nodes
GeometricThermalICs Properties(To be removed) Initial temperature over a region or region boundary
PDESolverOptions PropertiesAlgorithm options for solvers