33.4.22 Anisotropic Conductivity Dialog Box

The Anisotropic Conductivity dialog box allows you to define a general anisotropic thermal conductivity. This dialog box will open when you select anisotropic in the drop-down list next to Thermal Conductivity in the Create/Edit Materials dialog box. See Section  8.5.5 for details about the items below.

Controls

Matrix Components   specify the components of the matrix $\hat{\bf e}_{ij}$ in Equation  8.5-10.

Conductivity   specifies the value of $k$ in Equation  8.5-10 as a constant, or as a polynomial, piecewise-linear, or piecewise-polynomial function of temperature.

Edit...   opens the appropriate dialog box for input of a temperature-dependent conductivity. (This button will be unavailable if you specify a constant conductivity.)