Calculation of Heat Transfer in 3D Pipe ----------------------------------------- In this tutorial heat transfer on a solid pipe will be studied. Case with pipe cross section will be prepared, boundary conditions and material properties will be defined on the mesh of the pipe with the help of Elmer toolbox, that is included into Elmer module. CAD file of pipe will be imported into SMITER GUI and then appropriately modified and meshed. Then the user will define material properties and boundary conditions and assign them to the mesh. In the end the computation will be run and results will be shown in the Paraview module. Examine model in the GEOQ and MESH module `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Navigate to *~/smiter/study/elmer-pipe* and open study elmer_pipe_example.hdf. In GEOQ and MESH module the user can find the CAD model and mesh model with already defined groups for faces and volumes. Groups are defined for boundary conditions * **heatfluxBC:** Heat flux on the outer side of pipe * **adiabaticBC:** For the purpose of this tutorial, we will specify zero heat flux on the cross section of the pip * **htcBC:** surface on the inner side that is in contact with water .. _elmer_case_GEOMPipe: .. figure:: images/elmerPipeGEOM.png :align: center CAD model of pipe in GEOM module. .. _elmer_case_MESHPipe: .. figure:: images/elmerPipeSMESH.png Mesh of pipe in Mesh module. Construction of CAD and mesh groups is the same as in EHF-pipe tutorial. Navigate to ELMER module as shown in figure :numref:`elmer_pipe_case_activateELMERmodule` .. _elmer_pipe_case_activateELMERmodule: .. figure:: images/elmer_case_activateELMERmodule.png :align: center Select *ELMER* option to move to Elmer module. Examine ELMER tree structure in Object Browser .. _elmer_treeStructure: .. figure:: images/elmerTreeStructure.png :align: center Elmer general case in Object Browser. Right-click on *cylinder_heat_transfer* and click *Edit case*. The dialog in figure :numref:`elmerEditCasePipe` appears on screen. .. _elmerEditCasePipe: .. figure:: images/elmerEditCasePipe.png :align: center Dialog for editing ELMER case. Under *Select case type* tick option *3D.* Then click on *Equations*. The dialog in figure :numref:`elmerHeatTransferPipe` is shown on the screen. We can see that heat transfer equation is active. .. _elmerHeatTransferPipe: .. figure:: images/elmerHeatTransferPipe.png :align: center Dialog to select equation of the ELMER case. In similar way one can examine defined boundary conditions by clicking on *Boundary conditions* and material properties by clicking on *Materials. With *Object properties* the user can assign boundary conditions and materials to mesh groups, as discussed in EHF finger tutorial. After finishing, click *Save case to ELMER study*. Right-click on *cylinder_heat_transfer* and click *Compute case*. The result is stored in folder *elmer-compute*, that is stored in *home* directory. Inside *elmer-compute* folder is a folder *cylinder_heat_transfer* and inside is case0001.vtu, that contains temperature distribution on the pipe. Navigate to Paraview folder and load the file. Temperatures are shown in figure :numref:`elmerHeatTransferPipe`. .. _elmerTemperaturePipe: .. figure:: images/elmerTemperaturePipe.png :align: center Temperatures on pipe.