Thermal Analysis in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation with Natural Convection

Learn how to setup an external analysis natural convection problem in SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation. In this video we will setup an external analysis with heat conduction in solids, heat sources, solid material, size the computational domain, set up goals, and interpret the results as well as clone the project to test a design variation in an alternate configuration.

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Presented by Ryan Navarro

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0:00 Introduction
0:45 Geometry Setup
1:52 Getting Started / Project Wizard
3:37 Sizing the Computational Domain
4:50 Solid Material definition
5:24 Heat Source definition
6:40 Mesh settings - Minimum gap size
7:00 Run the analysis
8:03 Interpreting results - Surface plot temperature, cut plot streamlines
9:10 Cloning project for alternate configuration
10:05 Interpreting second set of results - Flow trajectories

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