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CFD.NINJA – ANSYS CFD
CFD.NINJA is a group founded in 2014, since then we have been dedicated to the research and dissemination of topics related to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for which we use various CFD simulation software such as ANSYS FLUENT, ANSYS CFX, ANSYS MESHING, ANSYS ICEM CFD, OpenFoam, DesignModeler, SpaceClaim, Rocky DEM, Autodesk Inventor, Ensight, etc.
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Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a tool with amazing flexibility, accuracy and breadth of application. But serious CFD, the kind that provides insights to help you optimize your designs, can be out of reach unless you choose your software carefully. To get serious CFD results, you need serious software. Ansys CFD goes beyond qualitative results to deliver accurate quantitative predictions of fluid interactions and trade-offs. These insights reveal unexpected opportunities for your product — opportunities that even experienced engineering analysts can miss.
Ansys Fluent Tutorials
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Fluent software contains the broad, physical modeling capabilities needed to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer and reactions for industrial applications. These range from air flow over an aircraft wing to combustion in a furnace, from bubble columns to oil platforms, from blood flow to semiconductor manufacturing and from clean room design to wastewater treatment plants. Fluent spans an expansive range, including special models, with capabilities to model in-cylinder combustion, aero-acoustics, turbomachinery and multiphase systems.
Ansys Fluent Tutorial – Blower
Source: Powerzone Compressors, Fans & Blowers – Basic Understanding Compressors, fans, and blowers are widely used in various industries. These devices are quite suitable for complex processes and have become indispensable for some specific applications. They have...
Ansys Fluent Tutorial | Overset Mesh
Source: Ansys Whereas non-conformal interfaces connect cell zones along matching face zones, overset interfaces connect cell zones by interpolating cell data in the overlapping regions. For overset meshing to be successful, the cell zones must overlap...
Ansys Fluent Tutorial | Solidification
Source: Ansys If you are including melting or solidification in your VOF calculation, note the following: It is possible to model melting or solidification in a single phase or in multiple phases. For phases that are not melting or solidifying, you must set the latent...
Ansys CFX Tutorials
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Ansys CFX is a high-performance computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software tool that delivers reliable and accurate solutions quickly and robustly across a wide range of CFD and multiphysics applications. CFX is recognized for its outstanding accuracy, robustness and speed when simulating turbomachinery, such as pumps, fans, compressors and gas and hydraulic turbines.
BladeGen + Turbogrid + Ansys CFX – Centrifugal Pump
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...
Ansys CFX – Compressible Flow
Source: Ansys 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 CFX – Heat Transfer through a Pipe
Source: NASA 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...
Ansys Meshing Tutorials
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Meshing is an integral part of the engineering simulation process where complex geometries are divided into simple elements that can be used as discrete local approximations of the larger domain. The mesh influences the accuracy, convergence and speed of the simulation. Furthermore, since meshing typically consumes a significant portion of the time it takes to get simulation results, the better and more automated the meshing tools, the faster and more accurate the solution.
Ansys provides general purpose, high-performance, automated, intelligent meshing software which produces the most appropriate mesh for accurate, efficient multiphysics solutions — from easy, automatic meshing to highly crafted mesh. Methods available cover the meshing spectrum of high-order to linear elements and fast tetrahedral and polyhedral to high-quality hexahedral and Mosaic. Smart defaults are built into the software to make meshing a painless and intuitive task delivering the required resolution to capture solution gradients properly for dependable results.
Ansys Meshing – Match Control
Source: Ansys The Match Control matches the mesh on two or more faces or edges in a model. The Meshing application provides two types of match controls—cyclic and arbitrary. The Match Control is supported for the following mesh methods: Volume Meshing: Sweep Patch...
Ansys Meshing – Body of Influence
Source: Ansys The Body of Influence option is available in the Type field if you selected a body and Use Adaptive Sizing is set to No. Using this option, you can set one body as a source of another body (that is, a Body of Influence). The Body of Influence will...
Ansys Meshing – Sphere of Influence
Source: Ansys The Sphere of Influence option is available in the Type field after you select an entity such as a body, face, edge, or vertex. If the Sphere of Influence is scoped to a body or vertex, the Sphere of Influence affects the entire body regardless of sizing...
Ansys DesignModeler Tutorials
Ansys DesignModeler – Ansys Beta Options (Solid Extension)
By default, System Coupling's beta features are not activated. When beta features are activated, the corresponding settings are added to the data model and are available for use. When hidden features are activated and either beta or alpha features are being used in a...
Ansys DesignModeler – Thin/Surface
Source: Ansys he Thin/Surface feature has two distinct applications: Create thin solids Simplified shelling The three selection tools are: Faces to Remove: selected faces will be removed from their bodies. Faces to Keep: selected faces will be kept, while unselected...
Ansys DesignModeler – Import from SOLIDWORKS to DesignModeler
Source: Ansys Some import types (ACIS and AutoCAD) allow you to specify the units of the imported model. Before clicking Generate, you may be able to change the model units from the Details View, depending on the type of import. Note that some model types store their...