Plotting and Evaluating Results in Layered Materials
When modeling heat transfer in thin layers, the thin layer’s thickness is not explicitly represented in the geometry. However, a 1D extra dimension is attached to the boundary, via the selection of a layered material, and degrees of freedom are added through the thickness of the layered material. This concerns the
Thin Layer
,
Thin Film
, and
Fracture
nodes of the Heat Transfer interface, and all the features of the Heat Transfer in Shells interface.
Therefore, dedicated tools are available to plot and evaluate the results in the 1D extra dimension.