Coupling to Other Physics Interfaces
Often, you are simulating applications that couple heat transfer in turbulent flow to another type of phenomenon described by another physics interface. This can, for example, include chemical reactions and mass transport, as covered by the physics interfaces in the Chemical Species Transport branch.
Furthermore, the Chemical Reaction Engineering Module includes, not only support for setting up and simulating chemical reactions, but also for simulating reaction kinetics through the temperature-dependent Arrhenius Expression and Mass Action Law. This physics interface also includes support for including and calculating thermodynamic data as temperature-dependent expressions, for both reaction kinetics and fluid-flow.
In addition, if you also have the Heat Transfer Module, it includes more detailed descriptions and tools for simulating energy transport, such as surface-to-surface and participating media radiation.
Viscous Heating in a Fluid Damper: Application Library path CFD_Module/Nonisothermal_Flow/fluid_damper
A variety of modeling techniques are discussed in the following sections of the Heat Transfer Module User’s Guide:
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Heat Transfer Variables
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Using the Boundary Conditions for the Heat Transfer Interfaces
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Handling Frames in Heat Transfer
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Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Coupling
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Solver Settings
Also see The Heat Transfer Module Interfaces and Theory for the Heat Transfer Module.