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ρ (SI unit: kg/m3) is the fluid density.
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Cp (SI unit: J/(kg·K)) is the fluid heat capacity at constant pressure.
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k (SI unit: W/(m·K)) is the fluid thermal conductivity (a scalar or a tensor if the thermal conductivity is anisotropic).
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u (SI unit: m/s) is the fluid velocity field, either an analytic expression or a velocity field from a Fluid Flow interface.
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Q (SI unit: W/m3) is the heat source (or sink). Add one or more heat sources as separate physics features. See the Heat Source node and the Viscous Dissipation and Pressure Work subnodes, for example.
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The Air material, from the Built-in materials database, has an Ideal gas property group, and is thus detected as an ideal gas by the Fluid node. The Liquids and Gases Material Library, available with some COMSOL products, also provides such materials.
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αp is the coefficient of thermal expansion (SI unit: 1/K):
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χt is the isothermal compressibility (SI unit: 1/Pa):
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The gas constant, with two options for the Gas constant type: Specific gas constant Rs or Mean molar mass Mn. If Mean molar mass is selected the software uses the universal gas constant R = 8.314 J/(mol·K), which is a built-in physical constant, to calculate the specific gas constant.
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Either the Heat capacity at constant pressure Cp or Ratio of specific heats γ by selecting the option from the Specify Cp or γ list. For an ideal gas, it is sufficient to specify either Cp or the ratio of specific heats, γ, as these properties are interdependent.
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The Viscous Dissipation (for heat generated by viscous friction), Pressure Work (available with some COMSOL products), and Convectively Enhanced Conductivity subnodes are available from the context menu (right-click the parent node) or from the Physics toolbar, Attributes menu.
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Heat Sink: Application Library path Heat_Transfer_Module/Tutorials,_Forced_and_Natural_Convection/heat_sink
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