Fluent Introductory Training Course

1. Fluent Introductory Training Course

2. Orientation • Agenda for Week: • Training • Problem Setup • Creating the model: geometry and mesh generation • Using the Solver: setup and execution • Establish contact with support staff • Begin your own CFD project! • We recommend doing all Gambit and relevant Fluent tutorials first.

3. Agenda (Day 1) Introduction to Fluent Inc. Introduction toCFD Analysis Introductory Tutorial Solver Basics Lunch Boundary Conditions Turbulence Modelling Tutorial Session

4. Agenda (Day 4) Solver Settings Heat Transfer and Thermal Boundary Conditions Your own Examples (or Tutorials) Lunch Your own Examples (or Tutorials)

5. Support Engineers Aero/ Auto Chemical/ Process Turbo/ Power Sales Support Consulting • Engineers and staff are assigned to industry teams. • Each team has their own sales, support, and consulting groups.

6. Fluent Support Online • User Services Center • Access through fluent.com • must be registered user • Services • Release Information • Download Updates • Documentation • Supported Platforms • Defects/Workarounds • Presentations • Training • ftp files to/from support • ftp to ftp.fluent.co.uk • log on as anonymous and use email address for password • cd to incoming/xxx or outgoing/xxx and put files in binary mode. • xxx = support team identifier

7. User Group Meetings • Attend the annual UGM and: • meet with the users and staff of Fluent • attend short-courses • learn of other Fluent applications presented by users • provide input to future development of software • Worldwide User Group Meetings: • USA (Manchester NH, MI, CA) • typ. Mid-June • European Meetings • typ. Mid-September through early October • Asia-Pacific Meetings • typ. Mid-October through early November

8. FLUENT 6 • Fluent 6 Applications: • Internal and external automotive flows • High speed aerodynamics • Rocket flows • Turbomachinery • Reactor Vessels • Cyclones • Bubble Columns • Mixing tanks • Fluidized Beds • Fluent 4.5 • Retained for Eulerian/Eulerian or Eulerian/Granular + Heat Transfer Surface pressure distribution in an automotive engine cooling jacket. Instantaneous solids concentration in a riser indicating uniform distribution of catalyst at the riser head.

9. deforming artery rigid artery initial mesh u=u(t), sinusoidal inlet velocity Velocity contour plot rigid wall compliant wall rigid wall FIDAP Example: Pulsatile flow in an artery with a compliant vein graft. • FIDAP Applications: • Polymer processing: non-Newtonian flow in extrusion dies • Thin film coating flows • Biomedical: oxygenators, blood pumps, deforming arteries • Semiconductor crystal growth • Other metal, glass, and chemical processing problems Time history plot of wall shear rate- Deformations cannot be neglected!

10. POLYFLOW Inverse Die Design: Determines die geometry based upon desired extruded shape. • FEM solver for laminar, viscous flows for complex rheologies and free surface • POLYFLOW Applications: • Extrusion, coextrusion, die design • Blow molding, thermoforming • Film casting, glass sheet forming/stretching, fiber drawing • Chemical reactions, foaming • Viscoelastic flows (“memory effects”) Requested part shape and calculated die lip shape for a rubber car door seal. Blow molding simulation of a gas tank using the membrane element.

11. Icepak • IcePak is focused on electronics cooling design: • Cooling airflow, heat conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer • The user interface and automatic meshing are tailored for applications such as: • Cabinet design • Fan placement • Board-level design • Heat sink evaluation Flow pathlines and temperature distribution in a fan-cooled computer cabinet.

12. Airpak • Simplifies the design and analysis of ventilation systems • Accurate, quick, and easy-to-use design tool that empowers designers and professionals, without extensive backgrounds in computer applications, to utilize the powers of advanced CFD tools • Optimize your designs or pinpoint problems based on accurate predictions of airflow patterns, thermal conditions, comfort conditions, and/or contamination control effectiveness

13. MixSim • MixSimis a specialized user interface that allows quick and easy set-up of mixing tank simulations. • The tank size, bottom shape, baffle configuration, number and type of impellers, etc. are specified directly. • The mesh and complete problem definition are then automatically created. • Other features include: • Impeller libraries from leading equipment manufacturers • Transient sliding mesh, steady-state multiple reference frame models • Non-Newtonian rheology

14. Pre-processor: Gambit • A single, integrated pre-processor for CFD analysis. • Geometry creation • Mesh generation • Mesh quality examination • Boundary zone assignment

15. Pre-processor: TGrid • A pre-processor for tet/hybrid mesh generation. • Useful when starting with triangular surface mesh.

16. Documentation CD’s • Separate CD for each product (e.g., FLUENT 6, TGrid, etc.) containingall the manuals for that product. • Three formats available: • HTML • for general viewing, searching,limited printing • Adobe Acrobat PDF • for high quality printing of one or many pages • Adobe PostScript • for high quality printing of one or many pages • A script is included which can (optionally) install the documentation. Fluent 5 CD Documentation html homepage

17. Training Evaluation • Evaluation forms are provided. • Your feedback helps us improve our training material and methods.