DPeixoto
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- Jun 3, 2014
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Hi everyone,
Although I just signed up, I've been reading posts on this forum for a while now and I've found them quite helpful! Hopefully you guys can help me just as much. I am performing a thermal analysis on a set of cork-core sandwich panels with aluminum facesheets in ABAQUS. The sandwich panels, which are laterally isolated, are heated on one side/facesheet and the objective is to know the temperature on the other side.
The problem here is the mesh refinement. I performed various analysis with different meshes and ploted the value of the facesheet temperature vs. number of elements and as you would expect the value converges. This however is not enough to justify why I chose a specific number of elements for my mesh.
Is there any statistical method that works with a desired value of the error of the temperature vs. number of elements function? A Matlab function would be perfect!
Thank you in advance,
Best Regards,
DPeixoto
Although I just signed up, I've been reading posts on this forum for a while now and I've found them quite helpful! Hopefully you guys can help me just as much. I am performing a thermal analysis on a set of cork-core sandwich panels with aluminum facesheets in ABAQUS. The sandwich panels, which are laterally isolated, are heated on one side/facesheet and the objective is to know the temperature on the other side.
The problem here is the mesh refinement. I performed various analysis with different meshes and ploted the value of the facesheet temperature vs. number of elements and as you would expect the value converges. This however is not enough to justify why I chose a specific number of elements for my mesh.
Is there any statistical method that works with a desired value of the error of the temperature vs. number of elements function? A Matlab function would be perfect!
Thank you in advance,
Best Regards,
DPeixoto