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A slab is subjected to thermal loads for a steady state simulation. Example 23 from Introductory Manual for LS-DYNA Users by James M. Kennedy.

Keywords

*BOUNDARY_CONVECTION_SET
*BOUNDARY_TEMPERATURE_SET
*CONTROL_SOLUTION
*CONTROL_TERMINATION
*CONTROL_THERMAL_SOLVER
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
*DATABASE_HISTORY_NODE
*DATABASE_TPRINT
*ELEMENT_SOLID
*END
*INITIAL_TEMPERATURE_SET
*KEYWORD
*MAT_THERMAL_ISOTROPIC
*NODE
*PART
*SECTION_SOLID
*SET_NODE_LIST_TITLE
*SET_SEGMENT_TITLE
*TITLE

Reduced Input

*KEYWORD
*TITLE
2D Heat Transfer with Convection
*CONTROL_SOLUTION
         1         0         0         0
*CONTROL_THERMAL_SOLVER
         0         0         3  1.00e-06         8  1.000000  1.000000  0.000000 
*CONTROL_TERMINATION
  1.000000         0     0.000     0.000     0.000
*DATABASE_TPRINT
  1.000000         0         0         1
*DATABASE_HISTORY_NODE
       225       171       371       372       373       374       375       376
       377       378       379
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
  1.000000         0         0         0         0
*PART
         1         1         0         0         0         0         0         1
*SECTION_SOLID
         1         2         0
*MAT_THERMAL_ISOTROPIC
         1  8000.000     0.000     0.000     0.000     0.000
     1.000   52.0000
*BOUNDARY_CONVECTION_SET
         1
         0 750.00000         0     0.000         0
*BOUNDARY_CONVECTION_SET
         2
         0 750.00000         0     0.000         0
*BOUNDARY_TEMPERATURE_SET
         1         0 100.00000         0
*INITIAL_TEMPERATURE_SET
         1 100.00000         0
*SET_NODE_LIST_TITLE
frontt100
         1     0.000     0.000     0.000     0.000
        78        79        80        81        82        83        84        85
        86        87        88        89        90        91        92        93
        94        95        96        97        98        99       100       101
       102       103       104       105       106       107       108       109
       110       111       112       113       114       115       116       117
       118       119       120       121       122       123       124       125
       126       127       128       129       130       131       132       133
       134       135       136       137       138       139       140       141
       142       143       144       145       146       147       148       149
       150       151       152       153       154         0         0         0
*SET_SEGMENT_TITLE
sidet0
         1     0.000     0.000     0.000     0.000
*SET_SEGMENT_TITLE
backt0
         2     0.000     0.000     0.000     0.000
*ELEMENT_SOLID
*NODE
*END

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