ThermalConditions - PLAXIS 2D Input objects documentation

ThermalConditions

Thermal conditions feature for steady state or transient thermal flow analysis.
Property Long name Unit Description
Name Name - Name of the thermal conditions feature.
Comments Comments - Comments on the thermal conditions feature.
UserFeatures UserFeatures - UserFeatures of the thermal conditions feature.
Parent Parent - Name of the parent object of the thermal conditions feature.
TemperatureConditions Temperature conditions -
None
This option shall be used if the temperature distribution in the selected cluster must be obtained from the global temperature distribution
User-defined
The temperature in the cluster is directly defined on the basis of a reference temperature Tref at a reference level yref, and an increment per unit of depth Tinc.
yref yref - Reference level for the thermal conditions.
Tref Tref - Reference temperature at the specified reference level.
Tinc Tinc - Increment value specifying the change in temperature with depth.
EnergyConditions Energy conditions -
Source
A cluster producing energy.
Sink
A cluster absorbing energy.
Q Q - Heat total flux.
TimeDependency Time dependency -
Constant
The heat total flux does not change with time.
Time-dependent
The heat total flux varies with time.
HeatTotalFluxFunction Heat total flux function - Heat total function that defines the variation of heat total function with time.