The Control page includes some thermal control parameters illustrated in Figure 8.3.117. For thermal analysis or coupled thermal analysis, these parameters can control the solver type, steady-state or transient analysis, linear or non-linear analysis, and time step of thermal analysis, etc.

TIME SCALE FACTOR

STEFAN BOLTZMANN CONSTANT(SBC)

THERMAL ANALYSIS TYPE (ATYPE)

0: steady-state analysis

1: transient analysis

THERMAL PROBLEM TYPE (PTYPE)

0: linear problem

1 or 2: non-linear problem which needs to define *CONTROL_THERMAL_NONLINEAR

TIME STEP CONTROL (TS)

0: fixed time step

1: variable time step

TIME INTEGRATION PARAMETERTIP

0: set to 0.5. Use Crank-Nicholson scheme

1: fully-implicit.

MAX. MATRIX REFORMATIONSREFMAX

Figure 8.3.117  Thermal control parameters dialog box