time history of temperature averaged across a surface in transient thermal

- December 6, 2019 at 11:26 pm
  
  xiaojiangyou
  Subscriber
  
  Hi,
  
  I'm running a transient heat transfer process in ANSYS TRANSIENT THERMAL module. Is it possible to get the time history of the averaged temperature over a surface?
  
  Thanks so much for your time and efforts!
  
  Best
  
  Xiaojiangyou
- December 7, 2019 at 1:29 am
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  I picked a face in this Transient Thermal to plot the Temperature results. The Tabular Data has the time history of the average for the face.
- December 7, 2019 at 1:43 am
  
  xiaojiangyou
  Subscriber
  
  Hi peteroznewman,
  
  Thanks sooooo much for your help! I did open the tabular data but I couldn't see the average value. Is it possible that there are some settings I need to make before making the temperature contour?
  
  Really appreciate it!
  
  Xiaojiangyou
- December 7, 2019 at 3:19 am
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  Average was added to all results in one of the recent versions of ANSYS. You don't have it in your version. Can you upgrade to the latest version of ANSYS?
- December 7, 2019 at 4:18 pm
  
  xiaojiangyou
  Subscriber
  
  Thanks so much again. I'll try update to the latest version.
  
  Besides, I'm also wondering is there a way to output the time history of each node temperature on that surface? I probably want to weighted average to that surface in the future.
- December 7, 2019 at 8:32 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  You can Export the temperature of every node on the face at any specific time of the solution by right click on the Temperature result and selecting Export.
  
  I know it is possible to write APDL code in a Command object in the Solution branch that will cause a file to be written with every time step, but I don't know the APDL commands myself. Perhaps someone else can provide that.
- December 7, 2019 at 8:57 pm
  
  xiaojiangyou
  Subscriber
  
  I see. Thanks so much!

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