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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.
References

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.

References

Stevenson, J. A., and Grafton, J. C. Radiation Heat Transfer Analysis For Space Vehicles, Wright Patterson Air Force Base. (1961): Report ASD61‑119.
Van der Vorst, H.A. and Sleijpen, G.L.G. "An Introduction to Hybrid Iterative Methods". Proceedings of the International Workshop on Solution Techniques for Large-Scale Problems, CERCA Centre de Recherché en Calcul Appliqué, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, (1994, Sept. 26-28).
Lewis, R. W., Nithiarasu, P., Seetharamu, K. N., Fundamentals of the finite element method for heat and fluid flow. Wiley, West Sussex, 2004.
Rohsenow, W.M, Hearten, J.P, Ganic, E.N. Handbook of Heat Transfer Fundamentals, 2nd edition. McGraw‑Hill. (1985).
Kraus, Allan D. Bar‑Cohen, Avram. Thermal Analysis and Control of Electronic Equipment Hemisphere. (1983).
Zienkiewicz OC and Zhu JZ. "A simple error estimator and adaptive procedure for practical engineering analysis." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. (1987): 24:337–57