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Old   January 14, 2010, 08:01
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Hi all.

I started recently to work with CFX. I am trying to implement a free-surface model.

I have already defined the geometry and the mesh. When I was defining the geometry I used the slice operation in order to have different types of meshes for air and water. However when I set the mesh I found that I could have a very good global mesh (for air and water) using exactly the same mesh (Tetrahedrons elements with Patch Independent Algorithm).

At the present moment I have launched the CFX-Pre. My main questions are (I am following the tutorial "free surface flow over a Bump"):
1) When I am creating the domain I`m giving the basic settings for air and basic settings and fluid models for water. However when I check their features in the "Automatic Default Domain " CFX assumes equal settings for air and water...

2) How can I define periodic boundary conditions?Basically I just want to give to the model the water height and the inclination of the bed and I want that the model compute the discharge...
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Old   January 14, 2010, 10:48
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1. Follow the tutorial again. You should only have 1 domain that contains 2 fluids, rather than 2 domains with 1 fluid each
2. The water height is part of the solution, you cannot specify it (expect at inlet boundaries).
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Old   January 14, 2010, 11:33
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Dear Stumpy:

Thanks a lot for your suggestions. Just one more question. Should I review the mesh that I have created or can I transform in CFX-pre the mesh in order to have just a single domain?

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Old   January 14, 2010, 13:09
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You can have a single domain containing both pieces. However, the mesh would need to match (i.e. not a GGI) since GGI's can have problems when aligned to a free surface.
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Old   February 9, 2010, 18:40
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hello everybody, i´m modelling the free surface too
i have the following problem:
the bottom should have 2 different temperatures! how i can make it with the if -function?
my bottom is 40 mm on the length.so how how can i declare it on the middel of the bottom without having a temperature-switch?it should be 25[C] left and 30[C] right from the middel!
maybe with a linear function?
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Old   February 16, 2010, 04:21
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2. The water height is part of the solution, you cannot specify it (expect at inlet boundaries).
but we can specify it
in cfx 11 see tutorial 7 bondary detail for inlet and Creating Expressions part
and instead of normal velocity in inlet select static pressure and put UpPress function for value
i think it works
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