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

Does anyone know to clarify these changes?

01 March 2021 1,290 2 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

What is the difference between PBE and PBEsol functional?

Hello, I am a 3rd year chemistry student and I'm writing my project report on computational chemistry. does anyone know how PBEsol improves upon the PBE functional? Thanks in advance

19 February 2021 7,068 4 View

Can someone help me with this error that I am getting while estimating a VAR model in R?

I am using annual time series data to estimate a VAR model in R. However, when I run the command to find the optimal lag length, I get the following error: Fehler in VARselect(data, lag.max = 10,...

18 February 2021 9,647 3 View

In your experience what is the difference between G.652D and G.655D optical fiber. In field and in lab?

In our current era there is a big confusion about the usage of G.652 and G.655 optical fiber cable. Theoretically G.655 is much better than G.652 but the operator feel that G.652 is giving almost...

11 February 2021 4,006 8 View

How many dilutions are good enough for TCOD50 of SARS-CoV-2?

I started with 10e-1 till 10e-10. But when I searched for online calculator they mostly consider 5 dilutions. Is there a reason behind it or I should make less dilutions?

11 February 2021 5,839 3 View

Protocol for bacterial samples preparation for Scanning Electron Microscopy ?

I want to prepare bacterial samples to observe the bacterial cell lysis by bacteriophage protein (endolysin) through scanning electron microscopy. Please, anyone can share the protocol of...

01 February 2021 1,173 3 View

After a reference from Int J Body Compos Res, can any body help?

Hi, I am after the reference below, my library says it cannot obtain a copy either locally or internationally, any help appreciated! Chris Wang ZM, Heshka S, Wielopolski L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Pierson...

03 March 2021 6,193 1 View

Irradiation data for JAPAN?

Hi, Could you help me to get the latest (2019, 2020) solar resource data for a particular site in JAPAN? PV GIS and NSRDB data are not in reach to JAPAN, I'm looking for some other database for...

03 March 2021 961 3 View

SDS page software for analysis?

I did sds page to determine the difference in protein expression between 3 types of vaccine , but i don't have scanner or densitometer available. . so i wonder if there is a software to analyze...

02 March 2021 6,270 3 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

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

Anyone found any research papers on solar furnace design calculations (for solar concentration)?

I am thinking about working on solar furnace with heliostats that concentrate sunlight and heat molten salt, but currently no luck with research. Not a lot of papers based on the subject. (check...

01 March 2021 5,023 5 View

How to size battery banks?

I am designing a small grid connected solar PV power-plant. As the battery's capacity is specified in Ah and demand in kWh. What is the best way to size the battery bank? I have battery price in...

28 February 2021 1,638 3 View

How to design a boost converter for a mppt controller?

I have a doubt on how to select the inductor and capacitor value when I want to implement MPPT controller. This is because we always take a maximum output voltage and current but in this case, we...

28 February 2021 3,637 2 View

How to calculate Ligand-active site distance in a ligand-protein complex from MD simulation?

I have run a MD simulation of a ligand-protein complex in GROMACS using CHARMM forcefield. Reviewer has asked me to calculate Ligand-activesite distance and binding free energy of ligand with...

27 February 2021 4,703 1 View

Why do the air flow results vary totally when adding scalar in CFD ?

Dear All, We are using Autodesk cfd to calculate the air flow in a single sided naturally ventilated room, where air flow depends only on buoyancy due to temperature difference between inside and...

25 February 2021 9,602 4 View