Does Steady State Heat Transfer Conserve Energy in Each Cell?

- December 7, 2019 at 11:47 pm
  
  sraykar8
  Subscriber
  
  I am doing a simple simulation in Steady State Thermal.
  
  I want to know if energy is conserved in the whole domain or in each cell as well.
  
  I am asking this because I am aware that this is a drawback of FEM.
  
  How does ANSYS deal with this?
- December 15, 2019 at 2:45 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  I recommend the free, online class to learn the answer to this question. There is an Enroll Now > button at the top of this page.
- March 2, 2020 at 4:19 pm
  
  Rob
  Ansys Employee
  
  Energy is conserved. Heat transfer may not be as you can also heat/cool a cell (or it reacts etc) so more energy can enter than leaves .

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