Hi mates,
I'm trying to make a very simple model for a pin losing heat through free convection to an environment. To account to for the buoyancy force, I have used the term "
alpha*g*rho_air*(T-Tamb)" (taken from a sample by FEATool).
For boundary conditions, I have used
Temperature and
Pressure for the vertical wall against warm plate.
For the top part I have used "
Natural outflow" with "
convective heat flux" and for the bottom part I have tried "
convective heat flux" and "
Insulation" with "
Wall no slip" and "
Natural out flow".
Neither of these conditions give me a stable answer. Anybody has any idea what's going wrong here? I have uploaded the file here as well.
pin_2D.fea
Thanks for your help beforehand.
PS: In the samples of FEATool for convection inside a box, I replaced the above-mentioned term with Pr.Ra for the Fy and it totally changed the results and velocity profile, but at least the model could converge.