8.4 Eulerian heat transfer element

Products: Abaqus/Explicit  Abaqus/CAE  

Benefits: The Eulerian element library now includes the new thermally coupled EC3D8RT element. This element extends the Eulerian capability to coupled thermal-mechanical problems in which the heat transfer equation is also solved as part of the solution.

Description: The thermally coupled Eulerian element is provided in Abaqus/Explicit for modeling fully coupled thermal-stress Eulerian analyses. The new element supports all of the thermal loads and boundary conditions available for the existing Lagrangian thermally coupled elements (thermal contact interaction is not supported).

Abaqus/CAE Usage: 
Mesh module:
    MeshElement Type: Family: Eulerian: toggle on Thermally coupled
References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Manual

Abaqus Keywords Reference Manual

Abaqus Benchmarks Manual

Abaqus Verification Manual