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Multi Capacitor

Multiple lumped thermal element storing heat

  

 

Description

Equations

Variables

Connections

Parameters

Initial Conditions

See Also

Description

The Multi Capacitor component models a generic ideal multiple heat capacity. The total number of parallel capacitors is determined by the Nodes parameter.

The following example uses Heat Capacitor components to illustrate the behavior of Multi Capacitor component.

Equations

(For details, see Heat Capacitor help).

Variables

(For details, see Heat Capacitor help).

 

Connections

Name

Description

Modelica ID

i-th HeatPort

Parameters

Symbol

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

Solid material property data

Material

Material.k is the thermal conductivity of the material

Material.k

Material.cp is the specific heat capacity of the material

Material.cp

Material.rho is the density of the material

Material.rho

Volume of the node

V

2

Number of parallel capacitors in the Multi Capacitor

numNode

Initial condition of temperature

T_start

Initial Conditions

None

See Also

Heat Transfer Library Overview

Multiple Overview

 

 

 

 

 

 


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