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Thermal solution options (Simcenter Samcef)
To set up solver options for a Heat Transfer solution in a Thermal analysis, you can:
Define initial conditions. For example, you can force an Initial Steady-State Computation (.ALGO IREF), or you can check the conductive matrix and singular modes prior to the solve.
Define the Default Reference Temperature (.GEL TEMP). For more information, see Reference and Initial Temperatures in Samcef (Simcenter Samcef).
Define Prolog and Epilog text. For more information, see Customizing a Simcenter Samcef input file with user defined text.
Specify Output Requests.
Specify the Solver Type algorithm.
User-defined solver parameters
In the User page of the solution, you can manually define solver parameters for the .ALGO, .SAM, or .GEL Samcef commands.
Note:
The text you add must be compliant with the Simcenter Samcef command language terminology. For more information, see the Simcenter Samcef documentation.
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Thermal solution options (Simcenter Samcef), Simcenter 3D 2021.1 Series
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