Resolved: How might I create a Time Curve for Heat Flux in Solidworks+COSMOS?

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This is a bit of a longshot, but I figured I'd give it a try before I go scouring the rest of the internet for my answer.

I'm doing some thermal FEA using Solidworks with COSMOS (Student licenses) for my thesis. I've done plenty of modelling in Pro/E, some with SolidEdge and SolidWorks, but next to nothing as far as analysis goes. For now I'm just testing out the capabilities of the FEA package and acquainting myself with some of the features I believe I'll eventually have to use.

I've created a fin, with a typical rectangular cross-section, nothing fancy. I've insulated one end and want to apply a time varying heat flux to the other. I can create a heat flux boundary condition no problem, and I can create a temperature dependent heat flux... I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make a time dependent heat flux though...

The help file has proven less than helpful so far. All it says is to click on the "create a time curve button", and I'd certainly do that...if the button they're describing was there.

 

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What, no takers?

It's okay, figured it out. Apparently when you start a thermal study it defaults to a steady state scenario. You have to go back and pull up a dialog after creating the study to change it to a transient case, then all the time dependency features appear.

That dialog should really just come up automatically when you begin the study.



Pardon the interruption. You're free to discuss your toenail clippings again.