My case is an equipment (Tank shell) which is heated on the outside wall with the help of heating coils. The tank shell contains a static liquid. The heat transfer is as follows
From the heating coil to the outer wall of tank shell via conduction
Heat then gets transferred from the outer wall of tank shell to inner wall based on the conductivity value of the material
From the inner wall of the tank shell the heat is then transferred to the static fluid inside the tank via convection
The heat is then transferred within the static fluid through convection currents.
The objective of the problem is to find the temperature of the static fluid inside the shell tank at various locations.
My question here is can this problem be simplified (since the fluid is static ) so that it can be solved through FEA thermal analysis or do I need to couple the thermal with flow so that the temperature distribution inside the static fluid can be determined.
Thanks in advance. Regards
Nikhil
Thanks for your answers
@Leander Boer - Would like to check with you assuming that the Grashoff and Rayleigh numbers are not significant and I want to solve this problem as a pure FEA thermal analysis problem, is there anyway I can include the properties of fluid inside the domain as the temperature distribution inside the fluid domain is my area of interest. Most of the FEA software's only have properties of solid and not fluid in their standard FEA materials library. Thanks in advance
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