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Viscous heating

Ver: 0   DESCRIPTION For non-isothermal flow problems, viscous heating in the energy equation can either be accounted or neglected.

By default, viscous heating is not taken into account.

Viscous heating may have an important effect on the temperature when shear-rate and/or viscosity is(are) large.

 
NOTES For non-isothermal flow problems involving a temperature dependence in the momentum equation (by means of a boyancy term or a temperature dependent viscosity), viscous heating introduces a coupling between energy and momentum equations.


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