I am trying to simulate the thermal deformation on a circular plate under a 100W heat load. I wish to select the heat load as a gaussian function and not on the entire face. My questions are

a) How can I define a gaussian heat load on the plate face with tabular inputs?

b)I have checked a few examples of gaussian heat loads but they are defined for a moving gaussian across the face and it uses ANSYS apdl which I want to avoid. Can it be done using only the workbench?

In the attached picture I have put a load of 60W and selected the entire face. However, in reality, the heat load only falls on a certain part of the plate and it decays according to a Gaussian function.

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