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Ideal Heat Flow Source - Simulate ideal source of thermal energy, characterized by heat flow

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Thermal Sources

Description

The Ideal Heat Flow Source block represents an ideal source of thermal energy that is powerful enough to maintain specified heat flow at its outlet regardless of the temperature difference across the source.

Connections A and B are thermal conserving ports corresponding to the source inlet and outlet, respectively. Port S is a physical signal port, through which the control signal that drives the source is applied. You can use the entire variety of Simulink signal sources to generate the desired heat flow variation profile. The heat flow through the source is directly proportional to the signal at the control port S.

The block positive direction is from port A to port B. This means that positive signal at port S generates heat flow in the direction from A to B.

Dialog Box and Parameters

The block has no parameters.

Ports

The block has the following ports:

A

Thermal conserving port associated with the source inlet.

B

Thermal conserving port associated with the source outlet.

S

Physical signal input port, through which the control signal that drives the source is applied.

See Also

Ideal Heat Flow Sensor

Ideal Temperature Sensor

Ideal Temperature Source

Ideal Heat Flow Sensor

Ideal Rotational Motion Sensor

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