ANSYS Fluent: Thermal Contact Resistance | Tips & Tricks

Improving the thermal contact resistance between two solids is critical in many industrial applications. To accurately model conduction between solid materials it is important that we count for this resistance in our models. This short tip shows you how thermal contact resistance is calculated and how to implement it into your models.

Note: This video was reuploaded. The original version contained incorrect units for thermal conductivity and thermal contact resistance.

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