19.8.6. Thermal Probes

The following thermal probe types are available.

Probe Type	Applicable Analysis Types	Output	Characteristics
Temperature	Coupled Field Static, Coupled Field Transient, Steady-State Thermal and Transient Thermal	Temperature: overall	*Scope by:* Geometry Selection: body, vertex, edge, or face. Coordinate System: any; defaults to Global Coordinate System.
Heat Flux	Coupled Field Static, Coupled Field Transient, Steady-State Thermal and Transient Thermal	Heat Flux: X axis, Y axis, Z axis	*Scope by:* Geometry Selection: body, vertex, edge, or face. Coordinate System: any; defaults to Global Coordinate System. *Orientation* coordinate system: any; defaults to Global Coordinate System.
Heat Reaction^[a]	Coupled Field Static, Coupled Field Transient, Steady-State Thermal and Transient Thermal	Heat: overall	*Scope by:* Geometry Selection: vertex, edge, face, or element face. Output is controlled by the NLOAD option of the OUTRES command. To enable the output, set the Nodal Forces property to Yes in the Output Controls (Analysis Settings). Boundary Condition (when scoped to a Radiation load, the Correlation property of that load must be set to Ambient To). You can also scope a Boundary Condition to elements, element faces, and nodes. This includes Named Selections that are either element-, element face-, or node-based. Contact Region The underlying element options are controlled by the NLOAD option of the OUTRES command. To enable the output, set the Nodal Forces property to Yes in the Output Controls (Analysis Settings). The contact element options are governed by the MISC option of the OUTRES command. To enable the output, set either the Contact Miscellaneous or the General Miscellaneous property to Yes in the Output Controls (Analysis Settings). Surface The output of these options are controlled by the NLOAD option of the OUTRES command. To enable the output, set the Nodal Forces property to Yes in the Output Controls (Analysis Settings). Named Selection Output is controlled by the NLOAD option of the OUTRES command. To enable the output, set the Nodal Forces property to Yes in the Output Controls (Analysis Settings).
Radiation^[a] (see note below)	Coupled Field Static, Coupled Field Transient, Steady-State Thermal and Transient Thermal	Outgoing Net Radiation, Emitted Radiation, Reflected Radiation, Incident Radiation	*Scope by:* Boundary Condition (when scoped to a Radiation load, the Correlation property of that load must be set to Surface-to-Surface). The Radiation load can be scoped to geometry items or to element faces (including geometry- or element face-based Named Selections).

^[a]Not available to the Samcef or ABAQUS solver.

Note:

Refer to the Probe Details View section for additional information about the above scoping options.
If you receive a negative value for the Outgoing Net Radiation result, then the application is detecting that heat is entering the scoped entity.
For 2D plane stress models the Radiosity Solver method assumes an infinite third dimension so the Radiation Probe results will be proportional to the Workbench model thickness.
For plane and cyclic symmetries the Radiation Probe results are calculated for the full symmetry model.

See the Probes section for further information.