CFD WORKSHOP

DAY TWO AND THREE

BACKWARD FACING STEP

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Geometry

 Design the geometry by following the steps below:

Step 1:

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Step 2

 Create surfaces from sketches.

Meshing of the geometry

Step 3

 Do edge sizing following these steps:

 Put a bias of about 20 downside.

NB: The behaviour of all edge sizing should be changed from soft to hard.

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 75 divisions and no bias

 1000 divisions and no bias

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 About 2025 divisions no bias.

 About 340 divisions no bias.

 Part of Mesh should look like this after following the above steps.

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Step 4

 Do Face meshing as follows:

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Step 5

 Refining the mesh.

 Go back to the design modeller and sketch this:

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 Do a FaceSplit

 Target body is the whole surface and tool Geometry is the sketched line.

 Do the same FaceSplit with the horizontal line.

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  The part in green becomes the target body.

 Results into three bodies created:

Step 6

 Update the geometry under mesh and fix these errors.

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 Do a face meshing for all the three faces.

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 If the behaviour of the edge sizing is set to soft this will be the resulting mesh:

 After Changing the behaviour to hard this will be the resulting mesh:

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Step 7

 Name the edges as follows:

 Inlet
 Outlet
 Lower_Wall
 Upper_Wall

 Update and save the project.

Step 8

 Setting up the physics.

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 Outlet set to pressure-outlet boundary condition.

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Step 9

 Putting skin friction as monitor point. Double click Report Definition and follow the
following:

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 Pressure coefficient as monitor point.

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Step 10

 Perform a hybrid initialisation.

 Run the calculation with at least 1000 iterations.

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 Analysis of the results.

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