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Hello,
I am dealing with error during lounching 2 Way FSI in ANSYS Workbench. Setup of the Fluent is ok (stand alone I am receiving expected results) and FEM uses Transient Structural.
Once I run the coupling I observe this error:
"Update failed for the Simulation compoment in System Coupling. The coupling service failed to start."
Please is here anyone who dealed with this error and was able to solve it?
Thank very much for your time.
how i can droplet liquid binder into particles powder during ANSYS fluent
I am trying to assess wind environment around high-rise buildings at pedestrian level height (2m in full scale). My geometric scale is 1/300, which gives me PL (Pedestrian Level) height of 6.67 mm in reduced scale (rounded to 6 mm). Now, the issue is that as per the CFD recommendations, I need to have atleast 3 cells below PL, however as per the experiment, aerodynamic ground roughness (Zo = 0.0002 m), which is giving me sand grain roughness height, Ks = 1.95 mm (using Ks = 9.793*Z0/Cs) at Cs = 1 which is approximately equal to 2 mm, i.e., the first cell height if I were to divide PL height of 6 mm uniformly into 3 cells and I want Ks to be atleast half of 2mm. Now, ANSYS Fluent has by default restriction on the roughness constant Cs, i.e., 0<=Cs<=1, so I wish to bypass it using a User Defined Function (UDF).
To achieve this, I have read several research papers on how to form this UDF which ultimately led me to Master's Thesis of Monticelli pertaining to Generalized Wall Function (GWF) and I've also been reading ANSYS Fluent UDF manual, however, the issue is that I just need to bypass a constant so I am beginning to think that DEFINE_WALL FUNCTIONS macro may not be of use as I'm not trying to modify a wall function but just bypass a constant (I am working with Standard Wall Function) and figuring out how to do it by going through UDF manual is proving be a daunting task. I have already spent much time on this subject due to which rest of my work is getting delayed. Hence if anybody can offer any help, I would be deeply grateful.
I am trying to simulate the effect of the magnetic field on the silicon melt using ANSYS Maxwell and MHD (ANSYS fluent). I have simulated the magnetic field in Maxwell and linked the "solution" to the "setup" of fluent (MHD is activated). Furthermore, I also activated the MHD module;
Here are my problems: 1- I have exported the magnetic field file from Maxwell in TXT format. And imported into ANSYS fluent.
2—When I click on "apply external field" in the MHD module in ANSYS fluent, I cannot see a field that is apparently produced by Maxwell. Once I click to apply, it just freezes and does nothing until I close the app by clicking "End Task."
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any relevant tutorial to tackle this problem. I will be truly grateful if you share your experience or help with me.
Best regards
i am having container filled with fluid and heating coils around it i want to simulate that to check heat currents through fluid how can i simulate it on ansys fluent
I am currently running a multiphase CFD simulation in ANSYS Fluent, involving liquid, gas, and solid phases with a moving bed of 3D-printed biocarriers in a water tank. The simulation frequently encounters the error "Negative Cell Volume Detected", which causes it to terminate prematurely.
The simulation setup includes:
- A refined, unstructured mesh.
- No-slip boundary conditions at the walls.
- An opening condition at the top of the domain as an outlet.
- Smooth symmetry planes and inflation layers near the walls.
Despite adjusting mesh refinement and time-stepping, the error persists. What could be causing this issue, and what are the best practices for resolving it, particularly when dealing with complex geometries and multiphase flow?
Any advice on improving mesh quality, setting numerical schemes, or adjusting solver parameters would be greatly appreciated.
Hello,
I am running a 3-D transient multiphase flow simulation for droplet coalescence over the hydrophobic substrate using the VOF model in the fluent 2020R2. To decrease the computational load, I am using volume fraction gradient-based mesh adaptation and adaptive time step advancement tool to model the coalescence. The following issues have been found while running the simulation.
Case _1. When I am starting transient simulation at the zeroth time step and run it continuously up to any time step, the gradient-based mesh adaptation works uniformly.
For example, if I am running a transient simulation from zero to 330-time step (as shown in the attachment A_Uniform Mesh_ time 330). The mesh adaption works smoothly throughout the domain.
I am looking for a solution for Case _2. Because currently, I am working on a problem, where it is required to restart the simulation at any time step and to simulate it for further time steps.
Here I am attaching all the details used to model the droplet coalescence.
I have defined a volume fraction gradient over the flow domain. As shown in the figure
I am currently using ANSYS Fluent to simulate regular waves, such as Stokes first and second-order waves, as well as Airy wave theories. While I have input parameters like water depth, wavelength, and wave height, the resulting surface elevation versus time plot does not appear as a regular wave. Instead, it shows unusual peaks and troughs, which differ significantly from the expected wave behavior. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
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I am simulating a PV panel with modification, and I am getting this warning "temperature limited to 1.000000e+00 in 574 cells on zone 6 in domain 1" after some iteration and do not know the reason. I have checked the quality, and it's ok. I am wondering if someone can help.
Thanks in advance
I am modelling combustion of CI engine using FLUENT. In order to ignite fuel , patching some amount of o2 and products are necessary. I can not start ignition without patching. Could you help me simulating combustion of CI engine?
While running simulation with hooked udf DEFINE_SR_RATE in fluent Warning..Surface chemistry solver did not converge for NNNN cells/faces warning coming after each iterations . The number NNNN got changing after each iterations with out any trend.? Why this warning? And the residuals are also not converging even adjusting the under relaxation factors.
The Ansys Fluent user guide mentions that the shadow wall temperature differs from that of the shell layer surface farthest from the original wall. Does this mean the shadow wall does not coincide with the shell layer surface farthest from the original wall? I’m having trouble understanding the sentence highlighted in the picture. Could anyone help explain it? Thanks!
Hi everyone,
I plan to use fluid dynamics software to simulate the scour problem of monopile of offshore wind turbines, which is similar to the well-known bridge scour problem. I want to use this numerical simulation to get the depth of scour and the change in pore water pressure in the seabed. Now the more famous fluid mechanics software include OpenFOAM, Fluent and Flow3D, etc. Which is easier to learn? I already know that OpenFOAM is the most difficult. Which is better to learn, fluent or flow3D?
Best regards,
Ben
I am currently working on a project that involves modeling the performance of metal hydride hydrogen storage systems. A critical aspect of my research is accurately determining the real-time density of the metal hydride during the absorption and desorption phases.
I am seeking guidance on the appropriate expression or equation that can be used to calculate this real-time density during these dynamic phases (ρ_s, density of solid). Additionally, if there are any relevant resources, papers, or examples that can provide further insights into this calculation, I would greatly appreciate it.
Any assistance or suggestions would be invaluable to my work. Thank you in advance!
i am a beginner to ansys fluent and working on the analysis of a naca008 aerofoil but after the meshing in fluent section its showing a error "WARNING: Unassigned interface zone detected for interface aerofoil-contact_region-trg" and i am unable to initialize the flow so someone help me to rectify this error
I need to a "UDF" for calculating the heat transfer coefficient
where use in local thermal non eqilibrume "LTNE" method
for simulating heat transfet in porous media by Fluent!!!
I want to use local thermal non eqilibrume (LTNE) method for simulating the heat transfer in metal foam (sic).
in thise method heat transfer coefficient must be enter to calculation process with "UDF" .
i want to this "UDF". can you help me???
Lee Smolin, major contributor to Loo0 Quantum Gravity, fluent and inspired theoretical physicist, devoted his later career towards proving and exploring the reoyrcussions of such an assumptions which led him to conceptions such as the cosmological darwinian principle etc
However, his main thesis, that "time is real" is dubious, never got endorsed.
At worse (or to tyevrelief of many) , it solidifiedvtge the idea of the imposibility of constructively bridging philosophical insights with physics
I am simulating water flow boiling through rectangular microchannel using Multiphase VOF model (evaporation-Condensation Mechanism)
Why we have to take number of eulerian phases =3
i.e. Air as Primary phase, Liquid water and Liquid Vapor as Secondary phases.
Can't we take 2 i.e. Water-Liquid as 'Primary Phase' and Water-Vapor as ' Secondary Phase' (as I see no boiling with 2 phases)
Please guide
Thanks in advance
Hello;
I am conducting a CFD study on two-phase flow in a separator, utilizing refrigerant as the working fluid.
For this study, I have implemented pressure inlet and pressure outlet boundary conditions based on experimental data. The simulation employs the Eulerian method in conjunction with the Volume of Fluid (VOF) and Reynolds Stress Model (RSM). Upon completing the simulation, I observed that the flow rate calculated by Fluent significantly exceeds the experimental data. Additionally, the mass balance is not adequately satisfied.
It is important to note that while a mass flow inlet boundary condition was applied, a reverse flow issue occurred. Attempts to rectify this through geometry extension and mesh refinement have not resolved the concern. Furthermore, the pressure inlet values predicted by Fluent were considerably underestimated compared to the experimental measurements.
I would greatly appreciate any valuable advice or insights you may have regarding these issues.
Hello all,
I am doing some heavy simulations in Fluent using clusters. The models are not readable by laptop or desktop because they are very heavy. So, i have to take the contours in cluster using journal file commands. But i don't know how. If anyone has experience in this field, please share it wit me. Thank you very much.
BR,
Ehsan
In ANSYS Fluent, which radiation model is most suitable for accurately simulating the behavior of solar radiation in the context of concentrated solar power systems, such as linear Fresnel systems: p1, S2S, Monte Carlo, Discrete Ordinates (DO), or DTRM?
"When solar irradiation reaches a surface, some of it is absorbed while the rest is reflected. Part of the light absorbed by the surface transforms into heat and increases the module's temperature. Some of the thermal energy from the PV panel is lost to the environment through convection and thermal radiation. Therefore, for thermal losses, I have two equations: Q(radiation) and Q(convection). To introduce them as boundary conditions in Fluent, I used a Mixed approach to incorporate radiation and convection. However, I'm unsure how to apply the optical loss of the surface due to reflection of the panel towards the environment, derived as: Q_reflectance = G_sun * (1-α), as a boundary condition in Fluent applied to a wall.
Hi, I am trying to model laser cladding in Ansys FLUENT. There are two phase: one is base metal surrounded by an inert gas (shown in the image). I want to add a cladding layer of the same metal. It is done using a mass source term in the continuity equation (shown in the image). Can someone please tell how to add a mass source term using UDF?
I can write the UDF but unable to decide where the UDF is added?
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
I am using ansys 19.2, I need to write an expression for a boundary condition in my simulation. I see that there are only 2 options available these are constant and New input parameter.
So i would like to know how to enable it, as in default setting it doesn't show up.
Hello everyone,
I am currently working on a case involving Cardiovascular disease using FSI (Fluid-Structure Interaction). I have an artery in an STL file. However, when I created a shell for the artery to represent the arterial wall in the mechanical simulation, it ended up consisting of multiple parts, making it difficult to select and to apply pressure on the surface.
Is there any way to merge the facets on the wall and the inlet into a single surface?
Thank you.
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i get into fuent and i select the result icone then i try to create an isosurface but the button is gray so i can't choose it.
what's the problem?
any suggestion.
Regarding the system coupling issue where the update of the solution component fails, the system coupling update for fluid flow (Fluent) triggered an exception: "Update Solution Failed."
hello everyone
i run my calculations in fluent in my desktop and i let work then the next day i come to the laboratory and i found that the fluent window has been closed so then the simulation. if you've any idea why is this happening.
I get an error saying "no signals yet at reciever"
Any reason that might be??
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Hi everyone,
I try to do a simulation about heat transfer of supercritical hydrogen in a cooling channel. Properties of H2 is obtained from NIST and displayed by an UDF function. I used the k-w model. If i set inlet temperature at 300K, everything is fine and correct. But when i set it to 34.6K, i ran into the problem " turbulent viscosity limited to viscosity ratio of 1.000000e+05 in xxx cells". My mesh is very fine as displayed below. CAn anyone help me to solve the problem
Hello,
How can we determine the exergy by Ansys Fluent program? or any another program to solve the exergy equations by simple method?
I want to model a combustor that has two fuel inlets for two different fuels. I want to model this using FGM in fluent.
What does it mean meshed wall and shell conduction with or without run-out method use to meshing copper tube in Ansys fluent?
Hi! I am trying to evaluate the performance of a bypass graft using transient CFD via ANSYS Fluent. However, I cannot find a way on how to calculate and display time-averaged wall shear stress, oscillatory shear index, and relative residence time on the software? Can anyone help me? Thank you!
Anyone working on ANSYS Fluent, i need some guidance about troubleshoot problems in ANSYS fluent. Recommend me any best book, or other theory guide about technical issues or troubleshoot solution in Ansys Fluent. Thanks
I wanna get isotherms and streamlines contours at differents instances, so how to do this in post processing of the ansys fluent.
thanks in advance.
I have a graph show the heat flux applied on the heated wall below (Heat flux through X direction). The heat flux can be write as a function of Z (for example q= Z*Z + 1000). Can anyone help me with this.
I need a tutorial for a simulation for water entraped in ports with various depth and various currents at the port entry.
Where I can find a similar simulation?
Where to find a simulation for propellers in ANSYS CFX or Fluent?
See what I already done below:
Hi Friends,
In some fluent simulation probelm, after run the iteration, iteration is moving for certain iteration(in my case 88th iteration) and then stops but loading , why it happened. Even if i stop, it is in same and not able to close. i could close through atrl+alt+del. Why ? anybody face this problem..?
ANSYS FLUENT - I need to generate variable wind speeds with rapid changes in velocity.
How to add winds in ANSYS to simulate a hurricane?
Or how to get a variable wind speed and direction input?
My FLUENT model includes fluid and solid regions, with Discrete-Ordinates (DO) radiation model.
The heating boundary conditions are defined by a named expression of Temperature-Time for the heating units. I'm having the issue that the temperatures in various parts of the model exceed the max value defined in the expression, even the heating units themselves.
The calculations completed normally.
What could be the possible causes?
Hello everyone
I wanna calculate the nusselt number in ansys fluent for a triple pipe geometry, and i'm not sure about the right way to do that.
I f someone know the correct steps to do.
Thanks in advance.
Hello everyone. Recently i am start to work on Ansys fluent software to simulate a model. Model: A rectangular vessel having 100mm height, 30mm width and 1mm thickness having the mixture of methane(10%v/v) and air(90%v/v) with a central spark. i put spark in the center with energy 2 joule and diameter of spark is 1 mm for duration of 0.1s. The condition is a transient, pressure density based, species transport, select eddy dissipation, on the spark, method selected is PISO, boundary conditions no outlet or inlet. all walls or adiabatic, wall is made of steel, heat flux zero, values of species is 0.20 CH4, 0.76 O2, 0.001 CO2, 0.001 H2O, . initialization standard, second order of all functions. Still i can not get the right results. I need to plot a graph between temperature and time, pressure and time which should be come in the range of 2000k and 0.6-0.8mpa. anyone please guide me that where i am doing mistakes.
I share three pictures, two screenshot are my results which are not correct and one rough picture which has the excepted results.
Hello there! I am running transient CFD simulation for a vehicle ideal gas law and the energy equation and I seem to be getting a negative gauge static pressure in the whole domain, even though the reference pressure in the domain was initialized to the atmospheric pressure. Does anyone have suitable explanation and a possible solution for this occurrence? Thanks!
I have other question in setup of mixed convection of water flow in circular tube under an isothermal heat flux using Ansys fluent,gravity is on, In term of density the boussinesq hypothesis is done, also reference density set at reference temperature (inlet temperature), is it necessary to go to operating conditions to more setup?
I am conducting a simulation of a co-flow flame using a 2-D axisymmetric model in Fluent. However, reversed flow exists in the pressure outlet. I have already tried to expand my computational domain to eliminate the reversed flow. But it didn't work. I also did the grid-independent test, so the quality of the mesh shouldn't be a problem.
Could anyone give me some suggestions to fix this problem? Thanks!
I have been working on fan boundary condition in ANSYS FLUENT. If I'm not wrong I remember providing pressure jump based on axial velocity and in addition tangential and radial velocity component.
I'm currently working on modelling the fan in server and analyses via OpenFOAM. I found this BC fanpressure to be equivalent to fan boundary conditon.
I need to input the fan curve data and provide BC fanPressure for pressure and pressureInletOutletVelocity for velocity. In this case, mass flow rate is calculated by pressure but I need to fix the volume flow rate/mass flow rate in the fans for server.
Can anyone provide me an idea how to do it?
Hi, I'm trying to design a convergent-divergent nozzle in order to obtain the lowest pressure drop using the software Ansys Fluent in 2D mode. In every simulation I do I change a geometry value in order to study how that thing can influence pressure drops; then I consider the difference between inlet and outlet absolute pressure to calculate my pressure drops, but I notice that inlet absolute pressure changes in every simulation, why does this happen? In the boundary conditions I set velocity inlet with 0 gouge supersonic pressure, and outflow outlet, am I forgetting something?
I am working on uncertainty quantification of Numerical Model where I am using Fluent and MATLAB. I am facing while writing a journal file ( A script consisting of all the commands using Text User Interface) to automate the work in Matlab. But while writing scripts for result analysis in fluent using TUI, I am facing problem and could not find any way to write them. I would be very grateful if you could help me out to solve it.
I need a material science expert who is also fluent (Native) in English to edit my paper and works. I can offer payment or co-authorship as compensation.
I'm doing 3000rpm drone propeller computation on ansys fluent. First 1500 iteration steady state mrf zone is computed with SST k-w turbulance model. After convergence is done i change it to transient DES model to capture acoustic datas.
Created zone is divided two equal peace to create periodic condition.
My first question is that what is the correct time step size to calculate transient simulation of rotating propeller (with sliding mesh).
Secon is that why my interior zone is corrupted while iteration progress. Is it releated to timestep size?
We are working on translating the Short Phronesis Measure (SPM) into Chinese; this exciting new measure was initially developed and validated by the Jubilee Centre at the University of Birmingham.
I have finished translating the 106 items into simplified Chinese, and now looking for a colleague who is a native English speaker and fluent in Chinese to do the back-translation.
If you are interested, please let me know. Looking forward to opportunities to collaborate with you!
Many thanks & best wishes,
Yan
Has anyone encountered this error before: 'Section Not Handled at line 10' while importing a surface mechanism while having the chemkin-cfd solver selected?
Once I get this error I am not able to investigate the cause because the software will crash and I would need to terminate.
Is it a sickness that so many papers present 3D streamlines via commercial Anasys Fluent/CFD-Post/Tecplot?
- Tecplot: Surface streamtraces or streamlines are confined to the surface on which they are placed.
- Tecplot: A streamtrace is the path traced by a massless particle placed at an arbitrary location in a steady-state vector field. Streamtraces may be used to illustrate the nature of the vector field flow in a particular region of the plot.
- Fluent: Pathlines are used to visualize the flow of massless particles in the problem domain.
- CFD-Post: A streamline is the path that a particle of zero mass would take through the fluid domain.
In fact, these are representations of pathline.
Hi, I am using FLUENT 19.2 to simulate a packed bed reactor of simple rectangular cross section. Solid inside the reactor (CaO) is porous and gas (Steam) enter the reactor from bottom. Product of the reaction is calcium hydroxide(which is also solid). The reaction is exothermic and the heat generated is transferred to fluid (HTF) flowing outside along the walls of the bed.
I need to know if it is possible to simulate this reaction using Ansys Fluent. If yes then which models/procedure should be used. Is there any tutorial available for this kind of reaction in fluent?
Thanks
For my multiphase 2-D simulation, I am trying to add an expression HTC = q/Twall-Tsat, but it's not working any ideas on how to add this expression and then make a contour from it?
Hello Everyone!!
I am currently working on a model for renewable energy harvesting using ocean wave energy in Ansys fluent. I have applied a dynamic mesh and compiled the UDF for motion of a vertical plate due to imp-act of ocean waves. But I am not being able to extract the velocity data of the plate as it moves linearly in the horizontal direction. Can anyone suggest the method in which the data can be extracted and plotted?
Thank You.
I am currently working on pin fin in microchannel. I want to calculate heat transfer and thermal boundary layer of that pin fin at different Reynolds number. Can anyone tell me how to find it in ANSYS Fluent Software?
I am currently running a fairly simple 2D axisymmetric simulation of heat transfer w/ melting inside a latent heat storage. I am using water as HTF (inner tube) and paraffin as PCM (outer tube). However, no matter which parameters I change, I can never achieve isothermal melting as it was in the experimental research I am validating my model against. It is a vertically oriented storage, so I am currently modelling the problem without natural convection, as was done in the research, but I have tried using the Boussinesq approximation for density, to similar results.
I have defined a point in FLUENT by coordinates provided in the research, and am then getting the temperature value from Facet Average for the defined point.
I have varied solidus/liquidus temperature (from S32-L35 °C to SL35 °C), thermophysical properties (constant and piecewise-polynomial), discretization schemes, geometries (2D/3D) and mesh density, and got fairly similar results and temperature variation over time.
My main problem is that my PCM melts in a matter of minutes, all the while its temperature increasing (visible from the images I am providing), yet the experiment clearly shows that melting occurs fairly at the same temperature and in approximately two hours, and temperature has three distinct slopes, from where it is clearly observable when heating of the solid, melting, and heating of the liquid PCM occurs. I am attaching the comparison of my numerical analysis and experimental research.
For the presented validation attempt, I have used the following properties:
density: 770 kg/m3
thermal conductivity: 0.1 W/mK
dynamic viscosity: 0.023 Pas
heat capacity: 1800S-2400L J/kgK (piecewise-polynomial)
latent heat: 206 kJ/kg
solidus/liquidus: 35 °C
I would appreciate any suggestion you might have.
Hello fellow researchers,
I am currently engaged in a 2D simulation of a three-blade vertical axis wind turbine using CFD Fluent, incorporating sliding mesh simulationI. I have conducted various simulations at different RPMs, and upon calculating the average torque from the torque R-plot file, I observed that the average torque is consistently negative, indicating a counterclockwise blade movement.
Specifically, I performed simulations at 20 RPM, 53 RPM, 83 RPM, 101 RPM, 120 RPM, and 137 RPM, all with a constant initial velocity of 10 m/s. Notably, only the first two simulations at 20 RPM and 53 RPM yielded positive average torque values, while the remaining simulations showed negative average torque.
I am reaching out for your valuable suggestions regarding potential mistakes in my approach. Your insights would be greatly appreciated.
Are people more likely to mix up words if they are fluent in more languages? How? Why?
Hi,
I’m using udf to define a praticle surface reaction. The dpm_scalar_update marco is used to get the data of species mass fraction of the praticle surface reaction. No errors occur while loading the udfs. However, this error called (Variable (sv: 742, pick: species, dim: 14) cannot be interpolated. Not allocated) occurs when the dpm iterate. And the iteration stil goes on...
If anyone tell me what cause this error, it would be much appreciated.
No one has the mental capacity to know all languages. Additionally, the more languages one is fluent in, the more likely that individual will mix up words. Thus, knowing enough languages for survival is optimal while artificial intelligence could and potentially will bridge language barriers. Of course knowing three languages or more is somewhat of an advantage.
Hi everyone,
referring to this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbaV_knzzks
which is a part 1 tutorial for a dynamic mesh problem for a piston and reed valve, could you please explain the utility for the fluid_valve_prisms zone and the fluid_stationary_prisms zone ?
One more question, why defining the gravity force on the piston in UDF. Why not defining a global gravity force in operating conditions ?
Thank you in advance.
Hello everyone, I am currently using ANSYS Fluent 2022R1. The XY plot and the strain rate contour I obtained from Fluent are different than when I used the expression (dV/dx + dU/dy).
I am doing a simulation in ANSYS FLUENT for ship resistance. Suddenly I found the below error message in DM while translating the geometry.
Warning: At least one of the imported/attached/converted bodies could not be validated. It is possible that subsequent modeling operations will fail.
Additional information: The following could not be validated: Midsection
Context: Feature Translate3
Can anyone please advice me, how can I solve this?