Thermal Contact Models

As described in the “Contacts and Contact Models” section, contacts are automatically created between pairs of pieces that may potentially interact during the course of the simulation, and state variables associated with each contact are updated during the calculation cycle. It is then the responsibility of the contact models to update the forces and moments carried at each contact. This section describes these mechanisms in detail.

Built-in Contact Models

• Null Thermal Contact Model
• Thermal Pipe Contact Model

Table 1: Built-in Contact Models

Keyword	Name
null	Null
thermalpipe	Thermal Pipe