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Meshing Advise for 2 phase flow ANSYS FLUENT simulation?

I am having difficulty meshing the attached geometry for a two phase mixing type application where I care about the volume fraction at various points along the tubes. I have defined 3 bodies Body...

12 December 2017 7,104 3 View

Which multiphase Fluent Model (Mixture or Eulerian) should I choose for my setup?

I am working on a rigid wall (for now) simulation of a pulsatile flow (as generated by a custom UDF) in a straight tube mixing with another flow injected at a different velocity (that is constant...

11 November 2017 6,115 4 View

How can I import a velcity profile stored as a .csv as a boundary condition in Fluent instead of using a UDF?

I have an openFOAM simulation I am trying to replicate into ANSYS Fluent and I have 2 csv viles containing velocity profiles that were used as the inlet boundary conditions. Is there any way...

10 October 2017 2,959 5 View

Which Multiphase Model Should be selected in Fluent for my below described simulation?

Disclaimer - this is my 2nd ever Ansys-Fluent simulation and I have not had any formal CFD training yet. I am working on a simple ANSYS Fluent (16.2) multiphase flow simulation . The geometry is...

09 September 2017 1,450 5 View

Why does meshing fail due to sweep mode controls on simple multiphase flow topology in ANYSYS 16.2 Fuent and how do I fix it?

I am working on a simple ANSYS Fluent (16.2) multiphase flow simulation and am having trouble meshing the surfaces. The geometry is a larger straight tube with a smaller straight tube inside the...

09 September 2017 8,810 2 View

Appropriate Arterial Windkessel model? Series inertial element or parallel with the characteristic impedence? Literature has both. What's Correct?

There are a variety of arterial Windkessel models used to describe pressure and flow in arteries using 2-4 elements. I am concerned with the formulation of the 4 element model where the...

02 February 2017 2,836 1 View

Why does the imguidedfilter in Matlab have a nonlinear filtration effect for even vs odd neighborhood sizes for same 'DegreeofSmoothing' factor?

Why does the image guided filter implemented in Matlab seem to have a nonlinear filtration affect in edge regions for even vs odd neighborhood sizes. For the same 'DegreeofSmoothing' factor even...

03 March 2016 9,652 0 View