The Bioheat Transfer interface (), selected under the Heat Transfer branch () when adding a physics interface, is used to model heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation. A Biological Tissue model is active by default on all domains. All functionality for including other domain types, such as a solid domain, are also available.

When this version of the physics interface is added, these default nodes are added to the Model Builder: Biological Tissue (with a default Bioheat node), Thermal Insulation (the default boundary condition), and Initial Values. All functionality to include both solid and fluid domains are also available. Then, from the Physics toolbar, add other nodes that implement, for example, boundary conditions and sources. You can also right-click Bioheat Transfer to select physics features from the context menu.

The Heat transfer in biological tissue check box is selected by default, which enables the Damage Integral Analysis Discretization section.

This section is available by clicking the Show button () and selecting Stabilization. See Consistent Stabilization for more details.

This section is available by clicking the Show button () and selecting Stabilization. See Inconsistent Stabilization for more details.

Select the type of the Shape function for damaged tissue indicators. The default is Discontinuous Lagrange. The order is set in the Discretization section.

This section is available by clicking the Show button () and selecting Discretization. By default, the shape functions used for the temperature are Quadratic Lagrange. See Discretization for more details.

Select Constant (the default), Linear, Quadratic, Cubic, Quartic or Quintic to define the discretization level used for the Damage tissue indicator shape function.