I have a 1x1m cube with a window on the top made of glass and I want to simulate how hot the air inside the cube will get after x amount of time. I have spoken to support and they have fixed one issue but brought another and told me to make a forum post to get further help (I don’t know why). Basically, the glass window I had made is using the “Transparent Glass” material from the material library and there was a bug where the radiative behaviour was set to “Opaque” and there was no option to change it, even if you made a custom material. After talking to support they reported this issue and were able to get inside my project and change it themselves which was a relief. However, when it came time to run the simulation again, it would mesh, pre-process and then get 8% into the simulation before encountering an error. Support has told me to come here for further answers. Is there any idea what could be happening here? There is no error log or specific error messages, just that it has encountered an error.
Hi @alec_stoj ,
Thanks for reaching out on the Forum.
There was some confusion regarding being able to access the transparent radiation feature. I made contact with the team and turns out it was not fully available yet to all users. You should be able to run the simulation without issues now, can you check (rerun) and let us know if that is the case.
Best,
Satvik
Hi Satvik,
While the simulation now runs and the material now displays “Transparent material” the material still behaves like an opaque material. In my simulation, no radiation is allowed into my system through the glass window at the top of my box. Therefore I can run the simulation for 10 hours if I wanted but the inside temperature of the box remains smaller than the outside temperature, which is unrealistic. If you leave a car outside for a few hours on a very hot day, the inside temperature of the car can reach 50-60 degrees C, this isn’t due to the temperature, but due to the suns radiation penetrating the glass of the car. I am trying to recreate this and the glass piece I have is being treated like an opaque piece of glass and no radiation is being allowed through. Again, this is after there was a fix to change the behaviour of this specific material for my project to make this material act like a transparent material.
I feel like there may be an issue on how radiative behaviour reacts with actual simulated radiation.