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

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

Can TP link 5 port Desktop switch be used as KVM switch?

04 May 2016 2,153 0 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 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

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 can i resolve the "final solutuin is not converged" error in Comsol for my heat transfer simulation??

I have been trying to simulate heat transfer problem in Comsol 5.5 for long time but it always throw an error stating: "Failed to find a solution. Maximum number of Newton iterations...

28 February 2021 8,626 3 View