Advantages of Using the Multiphysics Interfaces
The Nonisothermal Flow and Conjugate Heat Transfer interfaces combine the heat equation with either laminar flow or turbulent flow and use either a Heat Transfer in Fluids or Heat Transfer in Solids domain model. The advantage of using the multiphysics interfaces is that predefined couplings are available in both directions. In particular, physics interfaces use the same definition of the density, which can therefore be a function of both pressure and temperature. Solving this coupled system of equations usually requires numerical stabilization accounting for the couplings, which the predefined multiphysics interfaces also set up.
See also Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Coupling in the Heat Transfer Module User’s Manual for more information.