Heat Transfer and Thermal Stress Analysis of an Exhaust Manifold

This tutorial demonstrates two analyses: nonlinear steady state heat transfer and thermal stress. The model is an exhaust manifold made of steel. The goal of this problem is to get a temperature distribution based on the applied thermal loading from the nonlinear steady state heat transfer analysis, and then use that temperature distribution to determine the effects on the part due to thermal expansion.

It will cover the following:

  1. Heat flux boundary conditions.
  2. Convection boundary conditions.
  3. Setting up materials for heat transfer analysis.
  4. Setting up thermal loads with the output from a previous analysis.
  5. The units of this analysis are in inches, pounds and seconds.