Heat Toolbox

1. Models

2. Materials

Table 1. Materials properties defined in the heat toolbox (symbols are given without components suffix)
Name Symbol Shape Description

thermal-conductivity

k

scalar or matrix

thermal conductivity

density

rho

scalar

density

thermal-expansion

beta

scalar

thermal expansion

specific-heat-capacity

Cp

scalar

specific heat capacity

3. Fields and symbols expressions

Table 2. Fields available
Name Description Shape

temperature

the temperature field

scalar

Table 3. Symbols expressions by considering heat as the keyword used with the toolbox
Symbol Expression Description

heat_T

\(T\)

evaluate the temperature

heat_grad_T_0

\(\frac{\partial T}{\partial x}\)

evaluate the first component of gradient of temperature

heat_grad_T_1

\(\frac{\partial T}{\partial y}\)

evaluate the second component of gradient of temperature

heat_grad_T_2

\(\frac{\partial T}{\partial z}\)

evaluate the third component of gradient of temperature

heat_dn_T

\(\nabla T \cdot \boldsymbol{n}\)

evaluate the normal derivative of temperature

heat_nflux

\(-k \nabla T \cdot \boldsymbol{n}\)

evaluate the normal flux

4. Boundary Conditions

4.1. Dirichlet

\[T = g \quad \text{ on } \Gamma\]

4.2. Neumann

\[-k \nabla T \cdot \boldsymbol{n} = g \quad \text{ on } \Gamma\]

4.3. Robin

\[-k \nabla T \cdot \boldsymbol{n} = h \left( T - g \right) \quad \text{ on } \Gamma\]

5. Initial Conditions

6. Post Processing

6.1. Exports

Table 4. Fields allowed to be exported in the fields section are:
Name Description

temperature

the temperature field

velocity-convection

evaluate the gradient of temperature

pid

the mesh partitioning

all

all fields available

All materials properties given in the section Materials can be also exported by specifying the name in the fields entry.

6.2. Measures

6.2.1. Normal-Heat-Flux

Example of a Parameters section
"Normal-Heat-Flux": (1)
{
    "bottom": (2)
    {
        "markers":["bottom1,bottom2"], (3)
        "direction":"inward" (4)
     },
     "top": (5)
     {
         "direction":"inward"
     },

}
1 kind of measure
2 name of measure
3 surface markers
4 direction : inward or outward
5 another

6.2.2. Evaluation at points

  • temperature

7. Stabilization methods

7.1. GLS family