Summary for: ThermalNode < ThermalModelElement
Class summary
ThermalNode General class for textbook thermal node.
Properties
.connections Connections joining this node.
An array of ThermalNetworkConnection objects.
.heat_capacity Heat capacity of node.
.heat_source Heat source or sink.
.id Node id.
Set automatically by the model.
.name Node name.
.parent_model Parent ThermalModel
Methods
Class methods are listed below. Inherited methods are not included.
.ThermalNode General class for textbook thermal node.
Documentation for ThermalNode/ThermalNode doc ThermalNode
.add_connection Add connection to the node.
add_connection(this, conn)
.matrices Get matrices associated with this node.
matrices = get_matrices(this) returns a structure with the following fields, each corresponding to the contribution of this node only to the global problem matrices
- S_FEA : pure-FEA part (Np x Np)
- S_FEA2node : contribution from node into the FEA part (Np x Nn)
- S_node2FEA : same to the opposite direction (Nn x Np)
- S_node : pure lumped part (Nn x Nn)
- M_node : pure lumped part, capacitance (Nn x Nn)
- P_node : heat generation/sink (Nn x 1)
In the above, Np is the number of FEA nodes while Nn is the number of lumped nodes.
Each of the above matrices contains the contribution of all the connections that join this node, but at the same time only the contribution of this node. In other words, the final thermal problem matrices are obtained by summing the matrices returned by all the nodes together, and adding them to the pure FEA part.
.get_temperature Node temperature.
T = get_temperature(this, solution) where
- solution : a
ThermalSolutionobject.
.set_global_heat_source Set global heat source.
set_global_heat_source(this, P) sets the global heat source / sink equal to P Watts. The node source .heat_source is then set to P divided by the effective length and number of symmetry sectors, to render the value to the z-infinite problem frame of reference.