Bimetallic Strip in Airflow
Application ID: 74251
This is a conceptual model illustrating how to couple fluid-structure interaction, heat transfer, and thermal expansion.
A bimetallic strip in an air channel is heated so that it bends. After some time, an airflow with an inlet temperature which varies in time is introduced. As a result, there are changes in deformation, caused both by the fluid pressure and by the convective cooling.
This model example illustrates applications of this type that would nominally be built using the following products:
however, additional products may be required to completely define and model it. Furthermore, this example may also be defined and modeled using components from the following product combinations:
- COMSOL Multiphysics® and
- either the MEMS Module, or Structural Mechanics Module and
- either the Battery Design Module, CFD Module, Chemical Reaction Engineering Module, Corrosion Module, Electrochemistry Module, Electrodeposition Module, Fuel Cell & Electrolyzer Module, Heat Transfer Module, Microfluidics Module, Plasma Module, Polymer Flow Module, Porous Media Flow Module, or Subsurface Flow Module
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