Week 6.1 - Setting up a model (Electronic enclosure)

The complete geometrical conversion.

Meshing setup:

Global mesh settings

Mesh x:

Mesh Y;

Mesh z:

Physics setup:

Solver: 3D navier stokes solver is used to study the computational domain.

General set up:

Boundary conditions

Variables solved: flow and thermal

flow conditions

Radiation: off

Transient setup: steady

Natural convection bc

No of iterations: 1000

Parallel setup: 2 processors

Post processing plots

residue

Temperature contour

Temperature in X axis

Temperature in Y axis

Temperature in Z axis

Velocity vector plot

Conclusion

The temperature contour has justified the natural convection based cooling. The velocity vector predicts the direction in which the heat is being carried out across the entire system.