Solid Element Results from Thermal-Only (TOPAZ3D) Analyses

Solid element results from thermal-only (TOPAZ3D) analyses

When a thermal-only analysis is run solid elements only are used. However these do not write any results: the only output from such analyses is temperatures and flux vectors (in place of velocities) at nodes.

Thermal loading for structural models: the *LOAD_THERMAL_TOPAZ keyword

It is possible to apply thermal loading to a structural model in the form of temperatures at nodes, varying over time, by using a "topaz" input file combined with the *LOAD_THERMAL_TOPAZ keyword. However this has to be a "pure" thermal file, formatted exactly as if it came from an old (1980s or 1990s) version of Topaz3d, and this is not the same as the output file that contemporary Ansys LS-DYNA generates from a thermal only analysis.

D3PLOT has an undocumented capability to generate "pure" Topaz files from contemporary "thermal only" output - please contact Oasys Ltd Support if you need to use this feature.