/TITLE, Radial heat conduction in pipe, heatp1.a ! 1.9-in pipe insulated with 3-in magnesia ! eight elements radially, five axially ! Prog Thermo 87, page 7-46 Newnan, EIT ! heat /foot of pipe is 5*20*heat = 47.98 BTU/hr-F-foot ! axial node numbering ! exact answer is 47.78 vs 47.98 below /PREP7 ! preprocessor section ET,1,Plane55,,,1 ! axisymmetric option MP,KXX,1,0.042 ! thermal conductivity len = 1/2 ! pipe length rad1 = 1.9/2/12 ! pipe radius rad2 = (1.9/2+3)/12 ! interface radius ! elra < 10 elra = 6 ! radial number of elements elax = 5 ! axial number of elements nax = elax+1 ! axial number of nodes nrad = elra+1 ! radial number of nodes N,1,rad1,0 ! lower-left node N,nax,rad1,len ! upper-left node FILL,1,nax ! axial nodes NGEN,nrad,10,1,nax,1,((rad2-rad1)/elra),0 ! axial nodes /PNUM,node,1 ! plot the nodes NPLOT E,1,11,12,2 ! lower-left element EGEN,elax,1,-1 ! axial elements EGEN,elra,10,-elax ! remaining elements OUTPR,,1 FINISH ! preprocessor section /SOLUTION ! solution section antype,static outpr,basic,1 outpr,nload,1 elfar = (elra*10+1) D,1,TEMP,338,,nax,1 ! temp of inside nodes D,elfar,TEMP, 80,,(elfar+elax),1 ! temp of outside nodes SOLVE EPLOT FINISH ! solution section /POST1 ! post processor PRNSOL,TEMP ! /output,Temp,txt,D:\Ansys\ ! Temperature and heat /output,Temp,txt,U:\win\Ansys\ ! Temperature and heat ! FINISH ! post processor ! Number of elem Heat Error ! radial axial % ! exact 47.78 ! 4 5 48.5362 1.6 ! 6 5 48.1290 0.7 ! 8 5 47.9788 0.4 ! NODE TEMP NODE TEMP NODE TEMP NODE TEMP ! 1 338.00 2 338.00 3 338.00 4 338.00 ! 5 338.00 6 338.00 11 262.01 12 262.01 ! 13 262.01 14 262.01 15 262.01 16 262.01 ! 21 208.37 22 208.37 23 208.37 24 208.37 ! 25 208.37 26 208.37 31 166.92 32 166.92 ! 33 166.92 34 166.92 35 166.92 36 166.92 ! 41 133.14 42 133.14 43 133.14 44 133.14 ! 45 133.14 46 133.14 51 104.65 52 104.65 ! 53 104.65 54 104.65 55 104.65 56 104.65 ! 61 80.000 62 80.000 63 80.000 64 80.000 ! 65 80.000 66 80.000 ! NODE HEAT ! 1 2.40645 ! 2 4.81290 ! 3 4.81290 ! 4 4.81290 ! 5 4.81290 ! 6 2.40645 ! 61 -2.40645 ! 62 -4.81290 ! 63 -4.81290 ! 64 -4.81290 ! 65 -4.81290 ! 66 -2.40645