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Good day, everyone!

I need to extract XY data along the central area of an element subjected to heat transfer (steady-state analysis). In particular, I’m attempting to extract heat flux components and nodal temperature at the nodes indicated in the attached diagram. The mesh is built on a partition of a part, with each partition having a distinct thermal conductivity. The purpose of this exploratory investigation is to figure out what the smallest area with the maximum thermal conductivity value (the “green” area in the image) is for which the heat flux can be considered 1D. As a result, I’m attempting to plot the heat flux against the node distance within the considered element.

Because the mesh is dependent on the object’s dimensions, and these dimensions – the unknown variables – were parameterized using python macros, I’d like to know how to utilize a python function to extract the same path as seen in the figure as the size of the “green” area varies. The number of elements varies as well (the mesh is determined by element size, not by the number of elements), therefore the node labels change. Please accept my thanks in advance for your response.

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Hi,

I hope you are doing well. Actually, I have seen your work and done something like this before. It could be a little complicated. However, if you know how to use python, it would be easy. Thus, I recommend you refer to the following links:

Python scripting in ABAQUS Part1

Python scripting in ABAQUS Part 2

Here, you can learn python from beginner to advance. Also, an example like your problem is in it as well.

I hope it will help you with your current problem and future problems.

Best regards.

 

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