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Interface with heat removal that is a function of heat flux.
Posted Jul 19, 2011, 9:18 a.m. EDT Heat Transfer & Phase Change Version 4.1 0 Replies
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What I really need is a Inflow Boundary Condition where the amount of heat removal (i.e. negative heat inflow) is proportional to the amount of heat flux across the boundary at that location. I had planned to implement this as an expression of heat removal along the lines of "-PercentHeatRemoval*solid.kYY*d(T,y)". where "PercentHeatRemoval" is a parameter between 0 and 1.
I am doing this as a crude implementation of a thermoelectric power generation module... i.e. I would like for ~10% of the heat conducted into the thermoelectric module to "disappear" (because that energy is converted from thermal to electrical energy, and I am not including electrical energy in my model). I am not interested in modelling the thermoelectric module in any detail - it is just one part of a larger thermal model. However, it would be nice to include the heat removal that the module introduces.
Hello Matthew Pearson
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