Community > Discussion Forum > Variable heat capacity

Discussion Forum

Variable heat capacity

Topics: Heat Transfer, 4.3a

Thread index  |  Previous thread  |  Next thread  |  Start a new discussion

RSS FeedRSS feed   |   Email notificationsTurn on email notifications   |   1 Reply   Last post: January 30, 2013 6:13pm UTC
Marko Pavlin

Marko Pavlin

January 30, 2013 5:45pm UTC

Variable heat capacity

Hi!

I have measured Cp for metal alloy. It has significant temperature dependence. Is it possible to use Cp(T) instead of constant Cp for transient heat transfer problems?

Thanks!

Reply  |  Reply with Quote  |  Send private message  |  Report Abuse

Ivar Kjelberg

Ivar Kjelberg

January 30, 2013 6:13pm UTC in response to Marko Pavlin

Re: Variable heat capacity

Hi
Ccertainly, if you look carefully in the default materials there should be some with T and others even with pA dependence of the material properties.
You add an imported interpolation function (under the maerial node) to mimic your Cp(T) dependece, just be sure you get the SI units correct

When you have added your material to your model, and finme tuned it, you might save it in your own "private" material library for laer retrival

--
Good luck
Ivar

Reply  |  Reply with Quote  |  Send private message  |  Report Abuse


Rules and guidelines