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Ansys Fluent Tutorial | Heatsink
In this tutorial, you will learn how to simulate a Heatsink using Ansys Fluent. In this first video, you will see how to create the geometry and the mesh using DesignModeler, Ansys Meshing and Ansys Fluent.
Ansys Fluent | Hydraulic Jump
Free surface is the surface of a fluid that is subject to zero parallel shear stress, such as the interface between two homogeneous fluids, for example, liquid water and the air in the Earth's atmosphere. Unlike liquids, gases cannot form a free surface on their own. Fluidized/liquified solids,...
Ansys Fluent | Blower | Mesh Motion (Unsteady)
In this tutorial, you will learn how to simulate a blower (unsteady) using Mesh Motion with Ansys Fluent. Please download the mesh.
Ansys Fluent Tutorial – Blower
In this tutorial you will learn how to simulate a Blowe using Ansys Fluent through multiple reference frame.
Ansys Fluent Tutorial | Overset Mesh
In this tutorial you will learn how to use Overset Mesh in Ansys Fluent. You will need generate 02 geometries. Please see the video.
Ansys Fluent Tutorial | Solidification
In this tutorial you will learn how to simulate a solidification case using Ansys Fluent. You can use Ansys student version.
Ansys Fluent Tutorial | Melting
In this tutorial you will learn how to simulate a melting case using Ansys Fluent. You can do this tutorial with Ansys student version.
Ansys Fluent Tutorial | Modeling Species Transport and Gaseous Combustion
In this tutorial, you will learn how to simulate Species transport and gaseous combustion using Ansys Fluent. You can do this tutorial with Ansys student version. Please visit our website www.cfd.ninja for more information.
Ansys Fluent | Flow Through Porous Media
In this tutorial, you will learn how to simulate a porous media using Ansys Fluent. In the first part, you can create the geometry and the mesh and the second part Ansys Fluent setup.
Ansys Fluent | Convection Heat transfer & Convergence Criteria
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure your simulation with the Convection and analyze the convergence criteria to obtain accurate results
Ansys Fluent Tutorial | Elbow 3D Steady & Unsteady Simulation
In this tutorial, you will learn how to simulate an Elbow 3d using Ansys Fluent, This is a basic tutorial and you can use Ansys Student version.
Ansys Fluent | Heat Transfer between plates
In this tutorial, you will learn how simulate heat transfer between plates with different solid materials. In addition to this, you will learn how to create an interface using Ansys Fluent.
Ansys Fluent | How to Plot Graph? | XY Plot
In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate an XY Plot and save its picture (Post-Processing) using Ansys Fluent.
Ansys Fluent | How to calculate the values of the results of a simulation?
In this video, you will learn how to calculate the values of pressure, speed, temperature, and mass flow of a simulation.
Ansys Fluent | Y-Shaped Pipe Simulation
Pipe wyes are used to to allow one pipe to join another pipe at some degree or angle. As the name suggests, the pipe wyes are Y-shaped pipe fitting devices.
Ansys Fluent – Elbow 2D (Steady & Transient Simulation)
Pipe Fittings are Piping component that helps in Changes the direction of the flow such as elbows, tees. Changes the size of the pipe such as reducers, reducing tees.
Ansys Fluent – Fluidized Bed
A fluidized bed is a physical phenomenon occurring when a quantity of a solid particulate substance (usually present in a holding vessel) is placed under appropriate conditions to cause a solid/fluid mixture to behave as a fluid.
Ansys Fluent – Heat Transfer & Counter Flow
First we need to understand what the differences are between counter flow and parallel flow. As a brief description; the term refers to the relationship between the flow directions of the hot and cold fluids.
Ansys Fluent – Heat transfer through pipes
Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical systems. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, thermal convection, thermal radiation, and transfer of energy by phase changes.
Ansys Fluent – Drag Coefficient (Reference Values) Cube 3D
Source: NASA The drag coefficient is a number that aerodynamicists use to model all of the complex dependencies of shape, inclination, and flow conditions on aircraft drag. This equation is simply a rearrangement of the drag equation where we solve for the drag coefficient in...
Ansys Fluent – Drag Coefficient (Reference Values) Square 45° 2D
The drag coefficient is a number that aerodynamicists use to model all of the complex dependencies of shape, inclination, and flow conditions on aircraft drag. This equation is simply a rearrangement of the drag equation where we solve for the drag coefficient in terms of the other variables. The drag coefficient Cd is equal to the drag D divided by the quantity: density r times half the velocity V squared times the reference area A.
Ansys Fluent – UDF (User-Defined Function) Temperature Profile
A user-defined function, or UDF, is a function that you program that can be dynamically loaded with the ANSYS FLUENT solver to enhance the standard features of the code. For example, you can use a UDF to define your own boundary conditions, material properties, and source terms...
Ansys Fluent – Axial Fan
An axial fan is a type of fan that causes gas to flow through it in an axial direction, parallel to the shaft about which the blades rotate. The flow is axial at entry and exit. The fan is designed to produce a pressure difference, and hence force, to cause a flow through the...
Ansys Fluent – Static Mixer
A static mixer is a precision engineered device for the continuous mixing of fluid materials, without moving components. Normally the fluids to be mixed are liquid, but static mixers can also be used to mix gas streams, disperse gas into liquid or blend immiscible liquids. The...
Ansys Fluent – Airfoil 3D (NACA 4412)
The NACA airfoils are airfoil shapes for aircraft wings developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The shape of the NACA airfoils is described using a series of digits following the word “NACA”.
Ansys Fluent – Multiphase Flow (Free surface)
Chances are that your fluids simulation includes multiphase flows like boiling, cavitation, dispersed multiphase flows, immiscible flows and flows with particulates. Ansys CFD provides the widest range of sophisticated turbulence and physical models to accurately simulate the toughest challenges so you can confidently predict your product’s performance.
Ansys Fluent – Centrifugal Pump
Source: MichaelSmith A centrifugal pump is a mechanical device designed to move a fluid by means of the transfer of rotational energy from one or more driven rotors, called impellers. Fluid enters the rapidly rotating impeller along its axis and is cast out by centrifugal...
Ansys Fluent – Compressible Flow
Compressibility effects are encountered in gas flows at high velocity and/or in which there are large pressure variations. When the flow velocity approaches or exceeds the speed of sound of the gas or when the pressure change in the system is large,
Ansys Fluent – Multiphase (Water & Glycerin)
A large number of flows encountered in nature and technology are a mixture of phases. Physical phases of matter are gas, liquid, and solid, but the concept of phase in a multiphase flow system is applied in a broader sense. In multiphase flow,
Ansys Fluent – Heat Transfer through a pipe
Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with the energy and work of a system. Thermodynamics deals only with the large scale response of a system that we can observe and measure in experiments. In aerodynamics, we are most interested in the thermodynamics of propulsion systems and high speed flows.
Ansys Fluent – Heat Exchanger (Shell and Tubes)
A heat exchanger is a device used to transfer heat between two or more fluids. The fluids can be single or two phase and, depending on the exchanger type, may be separated or in direct contact. Devices involving energy sources such as nuclear fuel pins or fired heaters are not normally regarded as heat exchangers although many of the principles involved in their design are the same.
Ansys Fluent – Dense Discrete Phase Model (DDPM)
n addition to solving transport equations for the continuous phase, ANSYS FLUENT allows you to simulate a discrete second phase in a Lagrangian frame of reference. This second phase consists of spherical particles (which may be taken to represent droplets or bubbles) dispersed in the continuous phase.
Ansys Fluent – Scaling the Mesh
Internally, ANSYS FLUENT stores the computational mesh in meters, the SI unit of length. When mesh information is read into the solver, it is assumed that the mesh was generated in units of meters. If your mesh was created using a different unit of length (inches, feet, centimeters, etc.),
Ansys Fluent – How to add new material?
By default, your local materials list will include a single fluid material (air) and a single solid material (aluminum). If the fluid involved in your problem is air, you can use the default properties for air or modify the properties.
Ansys Fluent – Dynamic Mesh
In ANSYS FLUENT the dynamic mesh capability is used to simulate problems with boundary motion, such as check valves and store separations. The building blocks for dynamic mesh capabilities within ANSYS FLUENT are three dynamic mesh schemes, namely, smoothing, layering, and remeshing.
Ansys Fluent – Compilate UDF / Solution to “nmake” error
The general procedure for compiling a UDF source file and building a shared library for the resulting objects, and loading the compiled UDF library into ANSYS FLUENT using the graphical user interface (GUI) is as follows.
Ansys Fluent – Heat Transfer Solid/Solid
Source: brighthubengineering Heat transfer is the process of transfer of heat from high temperature reservoir to low temperature reservoir. In terms of the thermodynamic system, heat transfer is the movement of heat across the boundary of the system due to temperature...
Ansys Fluent – Polyhedral Mesh
Source: ANSYS For computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to limit, or potentially replace, physical prototyping and testing, fidelity and accuracy are critical. In the past, high-fidelity, high-accuracy results came with a price. Complex geometries required hours of...
Ansys Fluent – Steady & Transient Simulation
Fluent software contains the broad, physical modeling capabilities needed to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer and reactions for industrial applications.
Ansys Fluent – Centrifugal Pump (Cavitation)
Source: MichaelSmithEngineers A centrifugal pump is a mechanical device designed to move a fluid by means of the transfer of rotational energy from one or more driven rotors, called impellers. Fluid enters the rapidly rotating impeller along its axis and is cast out by...
Ansys Fluent – Centrifugal Pump (Impeller)
A centrifugal pump is a mechanical device designed to move a fluid by means of the transfer of rotational energy from one or more driven rotors, called impellers. Fluid enters the rapidly rotating impeller along its axis and is cast out…
Ansys Fluent – Import Pressure to Ansys Mechanical (FSI)
Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is the multiphysics study of how fluids and structures interact. The fluid flow may exert pressure and/or thermal loads on the structure. These loads may cause structural deformation significant enough to change the fluid flow itself. Undesired effects in your product may increase as the level of the fluid-structure interaction increases.
Ansys Fluent – Porous Medium
A porous medium is a solid with voids distributed more or less uniformly throughout the bulk of the body.
The basic characteristic of this medium is porosity. The bulk porosity Π of a material is defined as the ratio of void volume Vv to body volume V0, Π = Vv/V0. Since the remaining portion Vs of the total volume of the material is in the form of a solid “skeleton”, then
Ansys Fluent – Free Surface (Weir 2D)
Free surface is the surface of a fluid that is subject to zero parallel shear stress, such as the interface between two homogeneous fluids, for example, liquid water and the air in the Earth’s atmosphere.