SolidWorks Transient Heat Transfer Analysis - How Long to Heat Up?

In this video, I show how to use SolidWorks to conduct a Transient Heat Transfer Analysis. Our goal is to estimate how long it will take to heat up an plastic filament extruder assembly from room temperature up to around 210 degrees C. This is a simplified simulation which ignores convection (assume good insulation) and uses heater bands to input a certain wattage into the extruder tube with the simple transient thermostat bang-bang controller activated. I hope this video is helpful to get you started with a transient heat transfer analysis in SolidWorks.

[@lolazo21]

Best solidworks tutorial I've seen 👌

[@abm8017]

Thanks a TON for this video, very helpful!!

[@marzouguiriadh4600]

Good job 👌 I really needed this

[@ancientmoon4303]

Your video is excellent, explain clearly and in detail. Learn a lot indeed. Do you use Ansys? I am eager to watch your some video Ansys thermomechanical simulation using Ansys software.

[@BeamScreen]

Nice explanation you are amazing

[@adriancampbell1668]

Amazing stuff

[@nkululekongubane1488]

Thanks a lot Man...

[@The1001Fx1001]

I love you walk through, easy to follow!
i have a question on a semirelated subject!
Looking at the heat loads; temp, flux, convection, etc. We can define a time curve resenting the loads added onto an object. I am struggling to use this correctly and wondering if you had any tips and tricks?
for example, heat applied to a surface, but the convection changes due to different wind speed

[@ChefJeffPhD]

Hmm good question, I haven’t tried this and I’m not sure how simple that would be to implement. One thing to note is that you can do a fluids study and import the results into a heat transfer study which would likely yield good results for differing wind speeds

[@user-Big-G]

I'm also looking for a solution like this

[@mahmoudeid87]

hello Jeff,
thanks for the very informative video...i don't know if i missed it or this part is skipped. did you define contact between the different parts? or does SolidWorks already know that from the assembly constraints?
Thanks

[@ChefJeffPhD]

I believe the contact should be automatically defined as bonded from the assembly constraints.

[@niw-w1f]

Somehow I am suddenly getting negative temperature results, Already tried multiple models and in Celsius/Kelvin/Fahrenheit but nothing seems to work :x, any ideas? Only for the transient, the steady state does work! --Fixed-- Have to take my time to select the BODY :D

[@dankramer667]

Can this same simulation be done with the Flow Simulation Software or is this just the basic Simulation Software?

[@ChefJeffPhD]

I believe that SW Thermal Simulation is included in the standard SW Simulation package. You can also import results from a Flow Simulation into Thermal Simulation, though I haven’t tried this yet.

[@hoangduong7550]

how to draw a thermostat, sir?

[@Badassiguess]

Hey, uhh how can i add heat regeneration within the part i'm designing?

[@ChefJeffPhD]

What do you mean by “heat regeneration”? Do you want to add a heat source?

[@syriell7466]

Hi Jeff, do you think you could help me with a simulation i want to do for a school project? You can send me a message so we can talk about it.