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FLOTRAN
STARTING ANSYS
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MODELING THE STRUCTURE
Go to the ANSYS Main Menu (on the left hand side of the screen) and click
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Preprocessor>Modeling>Create>Keypoints>On Working Plane
Create keypoints corresponding to the vertices in the figure. The keypoints look like below.
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This window assigns the fillet radius. Set this value to 0.1 m.
Repeat this process of filleting for Lines 1 and 2.
The model should look like this now:
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ELEMENT PROPERTIES
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Now we’re ready to define the Material Properties
MATERIAL PROPERTIES
We will model the fluid flow problem as a thermal conduction problem. The flow
corresponds to heat flux, pressure corresponds to temperature difference and permeability
corresponds to conductance.
Go to the ANSYS Main Menu
Click Preprocessor>Material Props>Material Models. The following window will
appear
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Now the Material 1 has the properties defined in the above table so the Material Models
window may be closed.
MESHING:
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BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND CONSTRAINTS
Enter 0.1 in the VX value field and click OK. The 0.1 corresponds to the velocity of 0.1
meter per second of air flowing from the left side.
Repeat the above and set the Velocity to ZERO for the air along all of the edges of the
pipe. (VX=VY=0 for all sides)
Once they have been applied, the pipe will look like this:
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Go to Main Menu>Preprocessor>Loads>Define Loads>Apply>Fluid
CFD>Pressure DOF>On Lines.
Pick the outlet line. (The horizontal line at the top of the area) Click OK.
Enter 0 for the Pressure value.
Now the Modeling of the problem is done.
SOLUTION
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Go to Solution>Run FLOTRAN.
Wait for ANSYS to solve the problem.
Click on OK and close the 'Information' window.
POST-PROCESSING
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Select DOF Solution and Velocity VSUM and Click OK.
This is what the solution should look like:
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Select OK to accept the defaults. This will display the vector plot to
compare to the solution of the same tutorial solved using the Heat Flux analogy. Note:
This analysis is FAR more precise as shown by the following solution:
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Go to Main Menu>General Postproc>Path Operations>Define Path>By
Nodes
Pick points at the ends of the elbow as shown. We will graph the velocity
distribution along the line joining these two points.
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Now go to Main Menu>General Postproc>Path Operations>Plot Path
Items>On Graph.
The following window comes up.
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