How do we correctly setup the solar ray tracing for a Photo Voltaic PV panel simulation in ANSYS FLUENT?

Hello, I have a simple model (PV cell+ air channel) and I do not know how to let the sun rays hit the PV surface and then transfer the heat to the air..What I see is the sun rays hit the air...

08 September 2019 475 2 View

What are the equations of the boundary layer of a flat plate that TDMA method is based on?

Hello, I need the equations that show the coefficient of the matrix that solves the velocity contours of the boundary layer over a flat plate. I have the explicit discretization equations but I...

05 June 2019 7,941 4 View

How to define a heat flux and convection coefficient at the same time on a wall using user defined function in FLUENT?

Hell, how can we write a UDF to include a heat flux value + convection coefficient for a wall in Fluent because we cannot define two named selections for 1 wall ? Danke!

05 June 2019 7,041 12 View

How can we define a symmetry wall boundary condition in Fluent?

Hello, I want to simulate the half of the domain and define a symmetry wall because I do not want to consider it as the edge wall, I want to consider it the wall at the half of the domain..How ca...

04 May 2019 5,819 3 View

How to use Chemkin to model the model studied in the attached paper?

Hello, I want to know how to use ANSYS Chemkin to model the attached model in the attached paper. the videos on internet are so simple. Thanks

04 May 2019 3,934 2 View

Can we cople between ANSYS FLUENT and Simplorer ASAP?

Hello, we have done a simulation using ANSYS FLUENT, can we couple it with ANSYS simplorer? And if yes, how and what are the documents I can study? Danke!

03 April 2019 2,674 6 View

How can we define a heat flux boundary condition + convection for one wall in ANSYS FLUENT?

Hello, I have a wall which is affected by a heat flux and it is cooled by convection..How can we do this in FLUENT? Thanks

02 March 2019 5,946 4 View

What are the equations used to simulate a steady state thermal analysis using FEA ANSYS thermal?

Hello, we wanna write a thesis and we need the equations used for simulating the temperature distribution over a PV panel.. Where can we get these equations that ANSYS uses ? Thanks

31 December 2018 5,790 5 View

How can we save calculations to a text file from a Matlab CFD code during running the code like ANSYS FLUENT?

Hello, we have a CFD code written in MATLAB and we wanna save the calculations at a specific node to a text file like ANSYS FLUENT..Any suggestions please? We will be extremely grateful! Thank you!

31 December 2018 816 3 View

How to save data in a file from MATLAB GUI?

Hello, we have a MATLAB GUI code and it produces a graph, we need to save the data of the graph in a txt file, how can we do it? Thanks

09 October 2018 6,552 4 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

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

How do I plot Pressure against crank angle degree in Fluent?

18 February 2021 8,390 3 View