Edward Jenks

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Why are certain effects missing from my CFD analysis?

Hello, I have been carrying out an ANSYS Fluent CFD analysis of the system outlined in this paper: The solar cyclone: A solar chimney for harvesting atmospheric water Broadly speaking, my...

30 June 2021 7,509 2 View

How can you use SolTrace with Fluent?

Hello, I've recently been trying to run a transient simulation of a system with Fluent's solar ray tracing. I've been running into issues as to get proper results I need the simulation to go on...

23 June 2021 9,669 1 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...

03 March 2021 5,325 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...

25 February 2021 9,343 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....

23 February 2021 10,278 4 View

What Model for Vaporization and Condensation in Fluent will be best?

Hello, I am running a simulation that includes water phase changes. These phase changes will take place below the boiling point of water so I need a method that can accurately model this. From my...

16 February 2021 5,243 3 View

How to mesh complex geometry?

I have been trying to mesh some complex geometry and have been having issues. I have attached images of the geometry in question. This structure is very large in size but has some comparatively...

06 February 2021 6,632 5 View

How to Fix Floating Point Exception in Fluent?

Hello, I am trying to model a solar cyclone tower (The solar cyclone: A solar chimney for harvesting atmospheric water ) in Fluent. At the moment, I am trying to model a simplified version...

31 January 2021 12,588 3 View

Why is air in my simulation 'falling'?

Hello, I am running a simulation with buoyancy on a very large scale (4000m high domain). I originally modeled air with Boussinesq approximation but I don't want the constant density. Therefore,...

01 January 1970 4,982 3 View