How to resolve 3D Airfoil ICEM Hexa Meshing Skewness Issues ?

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Use of artificial intelligence and machine algorithims to revolutionize the field of fluid dynamics?

Hello Everyone ! I have been having this question in mind for quite a long time that we have this huge amount of data available in the form of wind tunnel experiments , in-flight data and...

31 December 2019 2,047 8 View

What is the size of laminar-turbulent transitional regime in terms of spatial and temporal dimensions ?

Hello Everyone , I was wondering is there any literature available on the extent of transitional regime in space and that for how long does it last ? Regards Aamir Sultan

31 December 2019 1,245 3 View

What happen with the conservation laws when we locally refine grids in adaptive meshes?

Does continuity , momentum and energy laws remain conserved when we use local refinement in adaptive meshes ?

31 December 2019 4,007 4 View

Why pressure far-field require a domain as far as 20 times of the characteristic length ?

Hello Everyone , Pressure far-field boundary condition is often recommended for flows with varying density , but why does it require so larger outer domains. Regards Aamir Sultan

31 December 2019 3,084 3 View

Why does Spalart Allmaras turbulence model underpredicts the Separation of Flow ?

Hello Everyone ! It is alway said that SA model is apporopriate for adverse pressure gradients then how come it lacks the ability to accurately predict separation ?

11 December 2019 354 2 View

Is Spalart Allmaras turbulence model capable of simulating Laminar Separtion Bubbles ?

Hello Everyone I am simulating an airfoil at Low Reynolds Number flow Regime Re=10^5 , in this particular case a laminar boundary layer separates , forming a laminar separation bubble , then...

11 December 2019 3,727 3 View

Which length is used as the reference length while doing external aerodynamic CFD simulation of a full aircraft ?

Hello Everyone , Hope you are doing fine . I have this question about the reference values , that which length should one use while doing external aerodynamic CFD simulation of a full aircraft...

10 November 2019 5,185 4 View

Ineffectiveness of Spalart-Allmaras model on a flat plate wing at Low Re No of 10e5 as the aspect ratio of wing increases ?

Hello Everyone , Hope you are doing fine . I was going through this paper of P. Cosyn and J. Vierendeels on ''Numerical Investigation of Low-Aspect-Ratio Wings at Low Reynolds Numbers'' in which...

08 September 2019 1,461 2 View

For a Mach No of 0.02 pressure based solver is diverging?

Hello Everyone , I am doing a 3D simulation of a 3D wing at a Reynold's number of 10^5 and a mach number of 0.02 . When I use pressure based solver my solution diverges within few iterations ....

02 March 2019 5,366 2 View

Udf to rotate a 3D wing to a certain roll angle for a specified period of time ?

Hello Everyone , Hope you are doing well. I have to rotate a 3D wing at different roll angles with the help of udf in Ansys fluent. Can someone provide me literature regarding this . Regards...

01 February 2019 6,374 2 View

What is the most Operating System (OS) which can be INSTALL on Tiny hard devices like Raspberry Pi (RPi) hardware ?

I'm targeting to deploy a mesh network and manually configure MANET routing protocols. I'm preparing scenarios, architectures, and hard devices needed to do that. Are there some step-by-step...

03 March 2021 1,931 5 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

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

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

Why the results when using wall thickness and when using shell conduction are different in ansys fluent?

Actually, I am running cfd simulation for a heat exchanger which has two fluids one hot and other one is cold fluid. there is a solid domain between them, which I removed and instead I have used...

01 March 2021 9,537 2 View

How much pressure we can reduce at the outlet to avoid Reverse Flow?

I am simulating Heat Exchanger. I have tried and tested all the methods to resolve this issue from the internet like refining mesh, improving skewness and orthogonal quality ,extending outlet to...

01 March 2021 6,985 3 View

What test should I use to compare two or three means, if data is not normally distributed but sample size is > 30 in each group?

I personally feel this as a most confusing question. As per my understanding, if sample size is > 30, and sample is skewed, we can still use paramteric approach, as it will follow Z...

01 March 2021 1,587 6 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

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 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