Thermal and Thermoelastic

Trace heat from boundary conditions to structural response.

Solve steady-state heat conduction with explicit material properties and thermal boundary conditions, then use the resulting temperature field in a coupled thermal-stress analysis without leaving the model workflow.

Physics

Conduction and thermal stress

Use steady-state thermal conduction independently or couple temperature to linear thermoelastic response.

Backends

Parallel finite-element execution

DOLFINx and MFEM support the common thermal paths, while Kratos provides an additional thermal-only backend.

Outputs

Temperature, flux, and stress

Inspect temperature and heat-flux fields, then review displacement and stress for coupled thermoelastic models.

Model Contract

Thermal data remains explicit and local to the model.

Material properties and thermal conditions stay attached to persistent CAD volumes and surfaces, while solver choices remain separate from the physical setup.

Thermal materials Assign conductivity, density, and heat capacity per volume. Thermoelastic models additionally use expansion coefficient and reference temperature.
CAD-bound conditions Apply fixed temperature, heat flux, convection, or adiabatic conditions to CAD surfaces once. TorsoCAE maps them onto each generated mesh, so refinement and mesh comparisons reuse the same thermal setup.
Coupled response The thermal-stress path uses the computed temperature field as the thermal strain driver in the structural system.
Reproducible execution Backend, solver, material values, conditions, and report requests remain visible in the generated Python journal.

From thermal loads to engineering fields.

Build and replay the same workflow through the UI, a Python journal, or Sesame.

01 GeometryImport or create the solids that conduct heat.
02 MeshResolve geometric and thermal gradients.
03 MaterialsAssign conductivity and coupled properties.
04 ConditionsApply temperature, flux, convection, or insulation.
05 InspectReview thermal fields and coupled structural response.
Validation in progress

Thermal reference cases are being prepared.

This section is reserved for reproducible conduction, convection-boundary, and thermoelastic comparisons with complete meshes, solver settings, reference values, measured error, runtime, result images, and journals.