Is there a way to patch solid particles in the flow field without affecting the flow?

after getting the flow field we can use PBM module in fluent. once I activate the PBM module the velocity vectors become zero in the flow field.

08 September 2018 8,274 5 View

Loading PBM through fluent gives an error?

when I load PBM through fluent, in one of the tutorials it is mentioned that I need to save the case and data--> exit from fluent--->> load the case and data once again and patch the...

08 September 2018 812 3 View

How to debug this error i am getting in Fluent " there must be more than 1 species on each phase"?

I am using multi-phase Eulerian granular model. I have activated the species model. I am trying to find layering on a solid surface from the bulk solution. I am having 2 phases ( 1 liquid phase +...

31 December 2017 5,659 2 View

How to quantify growth of solid particles in CFD-PBM?

I am trying to predict growth rate using CFD PBM with the help of population balance. Is there any solution method to proceed with the simulation

31 December 2017 3,501 3 View

How do i calculate circulation in terms of velocity or vorticity for a 3D system

How do i calculate liquid circulation in a stirred tank in terms of velocity or vorticity for a 3D system

10 November 2016 4,028 0 View

When to use CFX flow and when to use Fluent?

Which Software module is much more reliable in analysis

10 November 2015 721 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

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