Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit
Benefits: When temperature fields are interpolated from a previous analysis, you can now specify the source region from where the temperatures are read and the target region onto where the temperatures are mapped. This new feature eliminates the ambiguity in temperature assignment for cases in which free surfaces in a heat transfer analysis are very close or touching.
Description: When mapping prior analysis temperatures to a node in a current analysis, the general interpolation function searches for a parent element from the previous analysis that encloses or is the closest to the node. In a heat transfer analysis, temperatures may vary significantly on two surfaces that are close or touching but on separate parts. In such a case, the parent element might be found in either of the adjacent parts, resulting in an ambiguous temperature definition for a node on the surfaces. You can now eliminate this ambiguity by specifying the source and target interpolation regions. The source region refers to the heat transfer analysis and is specified by an element set. The target region refers to the current analysis and is specified by a node set.
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