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Thermal Solver
Contains thermal solver related guides, such as the TMG reference manual, thermal API guide, and error message list.
Thermal solver theory
Describes the theory and methods of the thermal solver.
Introduction
This guide provides the theory and methods used by the thermal solver, including methods to calculate conduction, convection, and radiation, as well as modeling specific topics using the thermal solver.

Thermal Solver
Contains thermal solver related guides, such as the TMG reference manual, thermal API guide, and error message list.
- Thermal solver guides
  Maya HTT's thermal solver is included in Simcenter 3D and in Simcenter Femap. This page contains links to thermal solver guides, which help you understand how the thermal solver works.
- Thermal solver theory
  Describes the theory and methods of the thermal solver.
  - Introduction
    This guide provides the theory and methods used by the thermal solver, including methods to calculate conduction, convection, and radiation, as well as modeling specific topics using the thermal solver.
  - Conduction methods
    To model heat conduction, the thermal solver can use two finite volume methods, center of element method or element's center of gravity method, or the finite element method.
  - Convective heat transfer methods
    The thermal solver computes convection conductances for various geometrical configurations using correlations that depend on specified characteristic lengths, convective surfaces, and type of convection.
  - Radiation exchange methods
    Thermal radiation is a heat transfer due to electromagnetic radiation emitted by the surface of bodies due to their temperature.
  - Miscellaneous topics
  - References
- Thermal solver API guide
  Allows you to create or add functionality to enhance the thermal solver capabilities.

Introduction

This guide provides the theory and methods used by the thermal solver, including methods to calculate conduction, convection, and radiation, as well as modeling specific topics using the thermal solver.

This guide contains the following sections.

Conduction methods: Describes the methods used to calculate heat conduction within solid materials. It covers the fundamental principles of heat transfer, the governing equations, and the numerical techniques that the thermal solver employs to model conduction accurately.
Convective heat transfer methods: Explores the methods used to model convective heat transfer between solid surfaces and fluid mediums. It includes discussions on natural and forced convection, boundary layer theory, and the empirical correlations used to estimate convective heat transfer coefficients.
Radiation exchange methods: Explores the radiation methods that the thermal solver uses. It covers the calculation of view factors, the treatment of diffuse and specular surfaces, and the methodologies for handling complex radiative exchange scenarios, including ray-tracing techniques.
Miscellaneous topics: Covers a variety of additional topics that are essential for a comprehensive understanding of thermal analysis.