Can the set up files created for openfoam v4.0 (from .org) can be used for openfoam 1906 (from .com)?

I noticed that openfoam software is provided by two different organisations 1. ESI group 2. OpenFOAM foundation. My doubt is if the cases are set based on the version provided by openfoam...

31 December 2019 4,726 2 View

Is meshgems (add on module in salome) is good for hexmeshing of fluid domain to be run in openfoam?

Hi I'm currently using snappyhex mesh for meshing my fluid domain to run simulation in openfoam. I found salome is better free alternative to snappyhexmesh, but the time required by the mesh...

10 November 2019 1,568 1 View

Why the flow direction seems fixed along 'x' axis in OpenFOAM 6 (I apologise I found no issues with velocity compoent)?

I recently updated my OpenFOAM version 4.0 to 6. I'm facing an issue in the direction of flow. My flow is always pointing in x direction. Hence I tried to change the flow axis in a tutorial...

08 September 2019 5,629 1 View

Is just the pressure raise on closing the valve causes water hammering?

I recently saw this lecture from NPTEL on water hammering. I suppose example used for explaining the wave motion is widely used. (flow from a reservoir and valve...

07 August 2019 1,756 4 View

How to determine the suction pressure of multiple pumps operating in parallel?

Hi Im doing an analysis on total head developed by a pumping station that has 6 pumps. We have measurement reading for pressure on delivery side, but unfortunately volume flow rate is measured at...

09 October 2018 4,197 1 View

How to determine the head rise in vertical turbine pump?

Dear all, I'm looking to apply Bernoulli's principle to determine the head rise in the pump. Since most of the lectures are based on centrifugal pump, there is a suction pipe and delivery pipe,...

09 October 2018 10,047 0 View

What is the difference between freestream BC and inletoutlet BC?

08 September 2018 1,089 0 View

How to connect between Simulink 2014a and Code Composer Studio V5?

Hi I'm working on active noise cancellation using DS TMS320C6713. I have created the model in simulink but I'm not sure how to transfer the mdl file into CCS v5.

06 July 2018 6,210 0 View

Why the hydrostatic pressure at outlet is not chaning based on velocity and total pressure?

02 March 2018 3,670 3 View

How to set up domain for cfx non premixed combustion modelling?

Hi all I'm trying to remodel pool fire modelling based on this paper "LNG pool fire simulation for domino effect analysis"...

11 December 2017 954 2 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

How to show arrows over the streamlines in CFD-post?

I follow this to make streamlines like the photos attached below: (software- CFD post-processing) First I plot the 2D streamline over a surface "streamline 1". them I plot a vector by the...

01 March 2021 8,668 3 View

What is recommended for solid domain in ANSYS FLUENT?

Should I mesh the solid domain ? or should I use wall thickness? or Shell conduction? for Heat Transfer between two fluids of a Heat Exchanger. what is recommended?

01 March 2021 9,785 3 View

Can Virtual Servers (remote dekstop manager) run heavy ANSYS Fluent CFD simulation ?

I have a virtual machine. My host Pc specs are not that good thats why i went for virtual servers. so basically my host pc has 8gb of ram with nvidia quadro k2200 4Gb DDR5 GPU ,processor intel...

01 March 2021 8,415 1 View

How to increase mesh quality of a cfd model in ansys fluent?

How can one improve mesh skewness, orthogonality, aspect ratio?

28 February 2021 7,730 3 View

How do you mesh a thin solid in Fluent?

Hello, I have used the shell function on SpaceClaim to create thin solids for the model I am studying. These are contained within an enclosure for my study. I chose this approach as it avoids the...

24 February 2021 8,856 3 View

How to extract the y+ value from fluent ?

I am doing a 3D steady simulation of a wind rotor using Ansys Fluent. In order to have a y+ of 1, I created 10 inflation layers using total layer thickness method, and I started a first...

23 February 2021 2,819 3 View

Should I use Pressure Based Solver or a Density-Based Solver?

Dear researchers, I want to simulate a flow (air) in a wind tunnel, and I want to integrate a fluidic actuator inside it in order to control the separation of the boundary layer. At the blower...

22 February 2021 4,882 3 View

Help with assigning pressure boundary conditions in FLUENT on a large structure?

Hello, I created a very tall tower (>1000m) and applied pressure boundary conditions at the inlet (bottom) and outlet (top) that correspond to the pressure are their relative altitudes....

22 February 2021 9,972 4 View

How do I add a udf to Ansys fluent and does it need to be compiled before hand ?

I have a Define_CG_Motion udf written in c where do I add it to my Ansys fluent project and does it need to be compiled before that?

21 February 2021 9,347 3 View