Latent heat

A material's latent heat:

  • models large changes in internal energy during phase change of a material;

  • is active only during transient heat transfer, coupled thermal-stress, coupled thermal-electrical-structural and coupled thermal-electrical analysis in Abaqus (see About heat transfer analysis procedures);

  • must appear in conjunction with a density definition (see Density); and

  • always makes an analysis nonlinear.

The following topics are discussed:

Related Topics
About the material library
About thermal properties
In Other Guides
*LATENT HEAT
Specifying latent heat data

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