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*FILM

Keyword type: step

This option allows the specification of film heat transfer. This is convective heat transfer of a surface at temperature and with film coefficient to the environment at temperature . The environmental temperature is also called the sink temperature. The convective heat flux satisfies:

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In order to specify which face the flux is entering or leaving the faces are numbered. The numbering depends on the element type.

For hexahedral elements the faces are numbered as follows (numbers are node numbers):

- Face 1: 1-2-3-4
- Face 2: 5-8-7-6
- Face 3: 1-5-6-2
- Face 4: 2-6-7-3
- Face 5: 3-7-8-4
- Face 6: 4-8-5-1

for tetrahedral elements:

- Face 1: 1-2-3
- Face 2: 1-4-2
- Face 3: 2-4-3
- Face 4: 3-4-1

and for wedge elements:

- Face 1: 1-2-3
- Face 2: 4-5-6
- Face 3: 1-2-5-4
- Face 4: 2-3-6-5
- Face 5: 3-1-4-6

for quadrilateral plane stress, plane strain and axisymmetric elements:

- Face 1: 1-2
- Face 2: 2-3
- Face 3: 3-4
- Face 4: 4-1

for triangular plane stress, plane strain and axisymmetric elements:

- Face 1: 1-2
- Face 2: 2-3
- Face 3: 3-1

for shell elements:

- Face NEG or 1: in negative normal direction
- Face POS or 2: in positive normal direction

The labels NEG and POS can only be used for uniform, nonforced convection and are introduced for compatibility with ABAQUS. Notice that the labels 1 and 2 correspond to the brick face labels of the 3-D expansion of the shell (Figure 24).

for beam elements:

- Face 1: in negative 1-direction
- Face 2: in positive 1-direction
- Face 3: in positive 2-direction
- Face 5: in negative 2-direction

The beam face numbers correspond to the brick face labels of the 3-D expansion of the beam (Figure 29).

Film flux characterized by a uniform film coefficient is entered by the distributed flux type label Fx where x is the number of the face, followed by the sink temperature and the film coefficient. If the film coefficient is nonuniform the label takes the form FxNUy and a user subroutine film.f must be provided specifying the value of the film coefficient and the sink temperature. The label can be up to 20 characters long. In particular, y can be used to distinguish different nonuniform film coefficient patterns (maximum 16 characters).

In case the element face is adjacent to a moving fluid the temperature of which is also unknown (forced convection), the distributed flux type label is FxFC where x is the number of the face. It is followed by the fluid node number it exchanges convective heat with and the film coefficient. To define a nonuniform film coefficient the label FxFCNUy must be used and a subroutine film.f defining the film coefficient be provided. The label can be up to 20 characters long. In particular, y can be used to distinguish different nonuniform film coefficient patterns (maximum 14 characters).

Optional parameters are OP, AMPLITUDE and FILM AMPLITUDE. OP takes the value NEW or MOD. OP=MOD is default and implies that the film fluxes on different faces are kept over all steps starting from the last perturbation step. Specifying a film flux on a face for which such a flux was defined in a previous step replaces this value. OP=NEW implies that all previous film flux is removed. If multiple *FILM cards are present in a step this parameter takes effect for the first *FILM card only.

The AMPLITUDE parameter allows for the specification of an amplitude by which the sink temperature is scaled (mainly used for dynamic calculations). Thus, in that case the sink temperature values entered on the *FILM card are interpreted as reference values to be multiplied with the (time dependent) amplitude value to obtain the actual value. At the end of the step the reference value is replaced by the actual value at that time, for use in subsequent steps. The AMPLITUDE parameter has no effect on nonuniform and forced convective fluxes.

The FILM AMPLITUDE parameter allows for the specification of an amplitude by which the film coefficient is scaled (mainly used for dynamic calculations). Thus, in that case the film coefficient values entered on the *FILM card are interpreted as reference values to be multiplied with the (time dependent) amplitude value to obtain the actual value. At the end of the step the reference value is replaced by the actual value at that time, for use in subsequent steps. The FILM AMPLITUDE parameter has no effect on nonuniform fluxes.

First line:

- *FILM
- Enter any needed parameters and their value

Following line for uniform, explicit film conditions:

- Element number or element set label.
- Film flux type label (Fx).
- Sink temperature.
- Film coefficient.

Repeat this line if needed.

Following line for nonuniform, explicit film conditions:

- Element number or element set label.
- Film flux type label (FxNUy).

Repeat this line if needed.

Following line for forced convection with uniform film conditions:

- Element number or element set label.
- Film flux type label (FxFC).
- Fluid node.
- Film coefficient.

Repeat this line if needed.

Following line for forced convection with nonuniform film conditions:

- Element number or element set label.
- Film flux type label (FxFCNUy).
- Fluid node.

Repeat this line if needed.

    Example:

    *FILM
    20,F1,273.,.1

assigns a film flux to face 1 of element 20 with a film coefficient of 0.1 and a sink temperature of 273.

Example files: oneel20fi.

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