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Knowledge base articles
This knowledge base provides concise, practical guidance for solving thermal, flow, multiphysics, space systems, and turbomachinery modeling challenges in Simcenter 3D. Each article provides you with step-by-step guidance, best practices, and tips to help you handle complex processes and use key features effectively.

Knowledge base articles
- Knowledge base articles
  This knowledge base provides concise, practical guidance for solving thermal, flow, multiphysics, space systems, and turbomachinery modeling challenges in Simcenter 3D. Each article provides you with step-by-step guidance, best practices, and tips to help you handle complex processes and use key features effectively.
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- Model preparation
  Best practices for assembling and preparing simulation models.
- Thermal loads and constraints
  Guidelines for defining thermal loads, temperature constraints, and controller-driven conditions in a simulation.
- Thermal couplings
  Methods and best practices for defining, verifying, and troubleshooting thermal couplings in the model.
- Solver and performance
  Procedures and recommendations for executing the thermal solver, managing restart workflows, and optimizing computational performance.
- Post-processing
  Techniques for reviewing results and interpreting thermal solver output.
- Troubleshooting
  Procedures for resolving solver errors, warnings, and convergence problems.
- Advanced thermal modeling
  Advanced methods for simulating complex thermal phenomena.
- Customization and plugins
  Guidance for developing plugins and custom tools to enhance thermal simulation workflows.
- Flow specific
  Flow specific knowledge base articles.
- Space systems specific
  Guidance for modeling spacecraft thermal environments, including multi-layer insulation (MLI), ablative materials, orbital heating, radiation modeling, and mission-specific boundary conditions.
- Turbomachinery specific
  Articles covering axisymmetric thermal modeling, bolt/nut interfaces, hybrid 2D–3D thermal mapping, thermal streams, voids, duct networks, and other turbomachinery-specific thermal workflows.
- FE model correlation and model update
  Model correlation and model update knowledge base articles, including how-to-guides, best practices, and troubleshooting tips.

Knowledge base articles

This knowledge base provides concise, practical guidance for solving thermal, flow, multiphysics, space systems, and turbomachinery modeling challenges in Simcenter 3D. Each article provides you with step-by-step guidance, best practices, and tips to help you handle complex processes and use key features effectively.

Model preparation: Contains best practices for assembling and preparing simulation models.

Thermal loads and constraints: Contains guidelines for defining thermal loads, temperature constraints, and controller-driven conditions in a simulation.

Thermal couplings: Provides guidance on creating, validating, and troubleshooting thermal couplings between 0D, 2D, and 3D elements, as well as checking connectivity and ensuring correct heat-transfer paths.

Solver and performance: Contains procedures and recommendations for executing the thermal solver, managing restart workflows, and optimizing computational performance.

Post-processing: Covers techniques for reviewing, extracting, and interpreting simulation results such as temperature differences, heat-flow distributions, and solver logs.

Troubleshooting: Contains procedures for resolving solver errors, warnings, and convergence problems.

Advanced thermal modeling: Contains advanced methods for simulating complex thermal phenomena.

Customization and plugins: Contains guidance for developing plugins and custom tools to enhance thermal simulation workflows.

General flow modeling: Contains articles to help you solve common flow modeling challenges.

Space systems specific: Offers guidance for modeling spacecraft thermal environments, including multi-layer insulation (MLI), ablative materials, orbital heating, radiation modeling, and mission-specific boundary conditions.

Turbomachinery specific: Includes articles covering axisymmetric thermal modeling, bolt/nut interfaces, hybrid 2D–3D thermal mapping, thermal streams, voids, duct networks, and other turbomachinery-specific thermal workflows.

FE model correlation and model update: Contains articles that cover FE model correlation and update solution processes.

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