Rapid Thermal Analysis of Rigid Three-Dimensional Bodies with the Use of Modelica Physical Modelling Language
Corey Bolduc, Chahé Adourian · Linköping electronic conference proceedings · 2009
Quick analysis of thermal systems without the use of CAD models may be very valuable for rapidprototyping.Such a need led to the heavy modification of the Heat Transfer package found in the Modelica standard library.The library in question revolves around a three-dimensional generic block composed of a variable number of interconnected elements with individually assignable thermal and physical properties.When applying the accompanying library functions, one may create moderately complex thermal structures with non-uniform thermal properties.Furthermore, other tools available also allow the user to attach chains of blocks of different resolutions, as well as insert one block into another to create composite models with the possibility of internal heat generation.