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When using planar conduction, which temperatures should be displayed on the boundary
walls?
Product Family: Fluid Dynamics
Product: ANSYS Fluent
Version: 14.0
Area: General
SubArea: N/A
Last Updated: Oct 09 2012

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Answer:
When one is using planar conduction (sometimes called in-plane conduction or shell-element conduction) to
account for both in-plane and normal heat conduction on boundary walls, you need to be aware of the
different temperatures that can be displayed on those surfaces.

When planar conduction is activated on a boundary wall (wall with fluid cells on only one side of it), Fluent
internally grows one layer of prism away from the adjacent fluid zone. The newly created cell zone is by
default a solid type and is called "conduction zone". In addition to the nodes on the boundary wall, a new set
of nodes are created for the outer surface of this prism layer. One should avoid reporting node values of
static temperature on that boundary wall because it is associated with nodes on the inner surface as well as
the additional nodes of the outer surface. If one is interested in temperature on the face adjacent to the fluid
cells, Wall Temperature (outer surface) without node values, found under the Temperature" category, should
be used. Wall temperature (outer surface) without node values takes the stored boundary value or face
center value adjacent to the fluid cell to be displayed.

If one is interested in the temperature at the center of the conduction zone, then Wall Temperature (inner
surface) should be used. This is also found under the "Temperature" category. Wall Temperature (inner
surface) reports the cell center value of the conduction zone or prism layer.

If one is interested in the adjacent fluid cell temperature then Static Temperature without node values should
be used. It reports the stored adjacent fluid cell temperatures.
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