About the Heat Transfer Interfaces
The Heat Transfer Module includes the following interfaces:
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Heat Transfer (with several versions)
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Heat Transfer in Shells (with several versions)
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Surface-to-Surface Radiation
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Orbital Thermal Loads
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Radiation in Participating Media
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Radiation in Absorbing-Scattering Media
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Radiation with Radiative Beam in Absorbing Media
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Lumped Thermal System
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Moisture Transport (with several versions)
They are used to compute the temperature field, the radiative intensity field, and the relative humidity field.
The multiphysics interfaces also compute other physical fields like velocity, pressure, or electromagnetic fields, depending on the available COMSOL products. See
Multiphysics Interfaces
.
The main dependent variable is the temperature,
T
.
The various kinds of Heat Transfer interfaces and the thermal multiphysics couplings can be used for modeling heat transfer by conduction, convection, or radiation, as well as conjugate heat transfer, evaporation, and electromagnetic heating.