*HEAT GENERATION

Include volumetric heat generation in heat transfer analyses.

This option is used in a material data block to include user-defined heat generation in heat transfer, coupled thermal-electrical, coupled temperature-displacement, or coupled thermal-electrical-structural analyses. It must be used in conjunction with user subroutine HETVAL (Abaqus/Standard) or VHETVAL (Abaqus/Explicit).

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Uncoupled heat transfer analysis
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HETVAL
VHETVAL

ProductsAbaqus/StandardAbaqus/ExplicitAbaqus/CAE

TypeModel data

LevelModel

Abaqus/CAEProperty module

Optional parameters

PROPERTIES
This parameter applies only to Abaqus/Explicit analyses.

Set this parameter equal to the number of properties being entered. The properties are available for use in user subroutine VHETVAL. The default is PROPERTIES=0.

There are no parameters or data lines associated with this option in Abaqus/Standard analyses

Properties and parameters can be either defined directly in HETVAL or, more generally, defined in an input file and accessed from HETVAL (see Accessing Abaqus table collections for more information).

Data lines to define properties in Abaqus/Explicit analyses

No data lines are needed if the PROPERTIES parameter is omitted or set to 0. Otherwise, first line
  1. Give the properties, eight per line.

Repeat this data line as often as necessary to define all properties.