Heat flux and wall temperature divergence
Dear all,
I would like to simulate just a simple heat transfer from a wall to the fluid. When I impose the wall temperature in the thermal BC, everything is going fine. However, when I impose a surface heat flux (W/mē), the wall temperature is diverging, or is converging towards a very high T (non-physical) when I'm using limiters. I suppose this is due to the fact that my fluid is stagnant. And numerically, the soft has trouble to handle it. I already refined my mesh. It's better, but I still have non-physical wall temperature. Does anybody has a solution or a suggestion ? Thanks in advance ! Remark : I have a cooling wall in the domain with the opposite heat flux, in order to be at equilibrium. |
That's free convection?
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Dear Ardali,
Thanks for your answer, which maked me verify something ! As the fluid is stagnant, it is free convection, indeed. That is why, I enabled the boussinesq approximation. However, I didn't capture any convection, and as I said, the temperature was diverging. In fact, I realized that the thermal expansion coefficient was set to 0... I suppose this the cause of the error. I believed naivly that the Fluent Database would provide me some meaningfull value. Sorry for this simple problem. Best, Mat |
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