HeatSourceAssignment Properties

Heat source assignments

Domain-specific heat transfer workflow is not recommended. New features might not be compatible with this workflow. For help migrating your existing code to the unified finite element workflow, see Migration from Domain-Specific to Unified Workflow.

A HeatSourceAssignment object contains a description of the heat sources for a thermal model. A ThermalModel container has a vector of HeatSourceAssignment objects in its HeatSources.HeatSourceAssignments property.

Create heat source assignments for your thermal model using the internalHeatSource function.

Properties

RegionType — Region type

'Face' | 'Cell'

Region type, specified as 'Face' for a 2-D region, or 'Cell' for a 3-D region.

Data Types: char | string

RegionID — Region ID

vector of positive integers

Region ID, specified as a vector of positive integers. To determine which ID corresponds to which portion of the geometry, use the pdegplot function. Set the 'FaceLabels' name-value pair to 'on'.

Data Types: double

HeatSource — Heat source value

number | function handle

Heat source value, specified as a number or a function handle. A heat source with a negative value is called a heat sink.

Data Types: double | function_handle

Label — Label for use with linearizeInput

character vector | string

Label for use with linearizeInput, specified as a character vector or a string.

Data Types: char | string

Version History

Introduced in R2017a