About the Heat Transfer Interfaces
COMSOL Multiphysics includes the following interfaces for heat transfer:
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Heat Transfer in Solids
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Heat Transfer in Fluids
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Heat Transfer in Solids and Fluids
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Conjugate Heat Transfer, Laminar Flow (multiphysics interface)
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Joule Heating (multiphysics interface)
They are used to compute the temperature field.
The Conjugate Heat Transfer, Laminar Flow interface also computes the pressure and velocity fields.
In addition, the Joule Heating interface computes an electric potential field.
The main dependent variable is the temperature,
T
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The heat transfer interfaces and the multiphysics couplings can be used for modeling heat transfer by conduction and convection as well as conjugate heat transfer and electromagnetic heating.