KFX™ Workshop

User Conference 2018

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Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Objectives
– Run a “Jet Fire” scenario in KFX™ and interrogate results

Learning Outcomes
– Delegates will:
– Become familiar with the KFX™ software interface
– Understand the KFX™ calculation workflow
– Understand how to:
– Import geometries
– Run calculations
– View results

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Practicalities

All delegates will need to have KFX™ preinstalled and licensed on their computers
– At least 5GB of disk space needed for this tutorial

We will be using the tutorial examples provided as part of the KFX™ manual (section 4.1)
– The manual can be found here: “file:///C:/CIT/kfx_v3.2-3/doc/kfxman.pdf”

The workshop duration is just 2-3 hours long which means it is not possible to go into a lot of
detail…

Nevertheless, please ask questions as we go along. We will try and take quick ones, but “park”
“others” for later

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Key Inputs

Geometry File
– “Plant.zip” (already provided with KFX™ as a demo file)

Scenario Definition
– Material: Methane
– Release rate: 5 kg/s
– Pressure: 3 barg

Weather Conditions
– Wind speed: 5m/s
– Wind direction: Assume worst case with respect to impacts on nearby process equipment

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Idealised calculation work flow

Input Geometry Define Scenario

• Set calculation type • Material, Process conditions etc
• Set working directory • Wind speed etc. Generate grid Set up results to log Run Calculations View Results

The “ideal” work flow follows a “series stepwise” model

In reality, the workflow is quite “iterative”

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Workshop Agenda

Topic
Duration Time Slot
09:00 – 09:15
Introduction 15 min

Input Geometry
30 min 09:15 – 09:45

09:45 – 10:15
Define Scenario 30 min

Generate grid 10:15 – 10:30

15 min

Set up results to log 10:30 – 10:45

15 min

Run Calculations 10:45 – 11:00

15 min

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break 15 min

View Results 11:15 – 11:45

30 min

15 min
Wrap Up 11.45 – 12:00

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Input Geometry

Give your case a name

Select a working directory
Select a simulation type

KFX™ supports a wide range of CAD formats

For this workshop we will be using a demo file that was converted from a “.dgn” format
– Open up the KFX™ Wizard and click “Load demo”
– Double click on the “small_plant.kfx”

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3DView of “small_plant.kfx”

Keyboard shortcuts:
– “G” centres the object
– “.” focusses the point of rotation (yellow ball) on
the location of the mouse
– “Up/Down” moves the object up/down
– “Left/Right” rotates the object
– “Shift” + “Up/Down” moves the object up/down in
the z axis
– “Shift” + “Left/Right” moves the object left/right
– “Shift” + “</>” zooms in/out
– “z” button for plan view (i.e. x & y planes)
– “y” for the vertical view (i.e. x & z planes)
– “x” for the horizontal view (i.e. y & z planes)

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Define Scenario: Material/Process conditions etc.
Option to define
various release
types
2. Set scenario
3. Set release
inputs
point and direction

1. Define
material first

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Generate Grid
Set ground (z) to 2.25887m Options to define
Change number of CVs to 150 000 the grid
Auto grid locked planes to 0

Options to save Options to load

scenario data to Click when all
scenario data from
text file to reuse inputs are
a text file
later on confirmed to be ok

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Set up results to log

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Run Calculations

Click to initiate
calculations

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Viewing Results (1)
Results from KFX™ are both:
– Qualitative
– Images
– Videos
– Quantitative
– Predicted temperatures and heat fluxes at locations of interest

This section will cover:

– Presentation of temperature contours
– Generating volume rendering images of the fire
– Presentation of radiation heat flux

Results can be presented with or without the geometry (part or whole)

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Viewing Results (2) Options of interest

Launch “Kfxview”
from the main
console

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Viewing Results (3)

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Viewing Results (4)

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Viewing Results (5)

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Viewing Results (6)

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Viewing Results (7)

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Viewing Results (8)

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Presentation of temperature contours

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Generating volume rendering images of the fire

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Presentation of radiation heat flux

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Questions?

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