How to approach CFD simulation results of a flow past a cylinder?

Hi all, I'm doing a transient simulation of flow past a rectangular cylinder close to the free surface. As far as I'm concerned, the common practice is to discard the initial stages of the...

25 February 2021 1,348 3 View

How to calculate time-averaged fields from Ansys CFX solver?

I would appreciate any comments on the following problem. I need to calculate mean fields (e.g. pressure, velocity and vorticity), for which I activate Trn Stats tab in CFX-Pre. However, what I...

21 February 2021 8,548 7 View

The most suitable turbulent models to predict flow past a floating body?

Hi all, I'm planning to simulate flow past a floating body using CFD method with the main purpose of investigating its stability against hydrodynamic forces. A sketch of the problem is presented...

28 January 2021 5,872 5 View

Stable region for VL model?

29 December 2020 4,125 3 View

How can I fix the capacity curve of two different structure?

I have two frames for nonlinear analysis, one of them is CBFs and one of them is BRBFs ( the generals are the same, only lateral elements are different). When I drew the capacity curve of my...

11 November 2020 10,034 3 View

How to measure the equivalent sand-grain roughness of a sandpaper?

I want to use standard sandpapers of different grit sizes to impart flow resistance to a surface. I am wondering how to convert the roughness of sandpaper to an equivalent sand-grain roughness. Is...

18 October 2020 9,384 3 View

How to calculate transvers current correlation function (MD)?

12 October 2020 4,424 1 View

How can I obtain thermal efficiency in thermal photovoltaic (PVT) systems by CFD (FLUENT) method ?

Hi everyone I have a question about the thermal efficiency of photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system by CFD (FLUENT) method. Why thermal efficiency in the morning with 400 W/m2 radiation is more than...

13 September 2020 2,543 4 View

How to deal with ANSYS Q3D surface mesh generation error?

I am trying to extract the stray inductance of a PCB bus bar using ANSYS Q3D. I tried different types of meshes but every time in the middle of the simulation, this error "Surface Mesh Generation...

10 September 2020 2,060 3 View

How can I improve Reinforcement Learning Agent training?

Hello everyone, I am trying to develop an RL agent for a simple double integrator system. Unfortunately, my agent couldn't find the maximum reward. The attached figure is the average episode...

20 July 2020 6,159 4 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 View