RadomeConstruction
Radome with solar heating

The model shown below is of a radome, a housing for a radar system, that is heated by the sun.  The tutorial that is installed with Solaria includes step-by-step instructions on building this model.  Vector based surface heat loads are applied to the external surfaces of the radome.  Vector based surfaces heat loads reference a node that defines the location of the source, in this case the sun.  Just move this source node and re-solve to change the location of the sun.

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