Thermal-shell finite-area model. It solves the energy equation in 2D. The coupling with the 3D region is done through the temperatureCoupledBase, plus faOption is available to add extra sources on the shell such as externalHeatFluxSource etc. More...

#include <thermalShell.H>

Detailed Description

Thermal-shell finite-area model. It solves the energy equation in 2D. The coupling with the 3D region is done through the temperatureCoupledBase, plus faOption is available to add extra sources on the shell such as externalHeatFluxSource etc.

Usage

Example of the boundary condition specification:

<patchName>
{
    // Mandatory entries
    thermalShellModel   thermalShell;
    thermo
    {
        // subdictionary entries
    }

    // Optional entries
    qr                  <word>;
    thickness           <scalar>;

    // Inherited entries
    ...
    nNonOrthCorr        <int>;    // read from another dict
}

where the entries mean:

Property	Description	Type	Reqd	Deflt
`thermalShellModel`	Type name: thermalShell	word	yes	-
`h`	Name of thickness field	word	no	h (suffix)
`qs`	Name of source field	word	no	qs (suffix)
`qr`	Name of radiative heat flux field	word	no	none
`thermo`	Solid thermal properties	dict	yes	-
`thickness`	Uniform shell thickness [m]	scalar	choice	-

Fields/variables used:

Property	Description	Type	Deflt
`h`	Thickness	shell	h (suffix)
`qs`	Source field	shell	qs (suffix)
`qr`	Radiative heat flux field	volume	none

Note the following naming changes from 2056 and earlier:

Keyword	Description	Keyword (old)	Deflt (old)
`h`	Thickness	h	"h_" + regionName
`qs`	Source field	qs	"qs_" + regionName

The inherited entries are elaborated in:

thermalShellModel.H

Source files

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

src/regionFaModels/thermalShell/thermalShell.H