An Imported Heat Generation object is created in the Imported Load folder when you transfer Joule heating from a Coupled Field Harmonic or an Electric analysis to a thermal analysis. For additional information about the supported source and target systems as well as the specific steps to transfer data, see the Imported Boundary Conditions section.
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You can scope an Imported Heat Generation object to bodies, body-based Named Selections, Elements, and element-based Named Selections only.
For each time step, the total heat mapped to the target system is available in the Imported Load Transfer Summary.
The Joule heating, from an Electric analysis, resulting from limited contact electric conductance is ignored during this data transfer.
For each load step, if an Imported Heat Generation load and an Internal Heat Generation load are applied on common geometry selections, the Imported Heat Generation load takes precedence. An active Imported Heat Generation load will also overwrite other Imported Heat Generation loads that exist higher (previously added) in the tree, on common geometry selections. For additional rules when multiple load objects of the same type exist on common geometry selections, see Activating and Deactivating Loads.
For surface bodies, the thickness of each target node is ignored when data is mapped. When importing data from an External Data system, the Shell Thickness Factor property enables you to account for the thickness at each target node, and consequently modify the location used for each target node during the mapping process. For additional information, see External Data.
When you import Joule heat from a Coupled Field Harmonic analysis, the application only considers the heating contributed from the bodies that are scoped to the Physics Region object with the Structural and Electric properties set to .