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sara22 July 8, 2013 09:53

negative pressure
 
Hi all.
I simulated one heat sink that has some microchannels. and boundary conditions:
1 velocity inlet for fluid inlet
2 pressure outlet for fluid outlet.
and two thermal boundary for heat sink.
when converge my RUN pressure @ out let become negative.!????
please help me.

RodriguezFatz July 10, 2013 03:43

You mean the pressure at the pressure outlet becomes negative?

sara22 July 10, 2013 15:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by RodriguezFatz (Post 438830)
You mean the pressure at the pressure outlet becomes negative?

yes.pressure @ outlet becomes negative

RodriguezFatz July 11, 2013 03:03

But this doesn't make any sense to me. If you set the outlet pressure to some value (as a BC), how can this value change during your simulation?

blackmask July 11, 2013 04:17

It is possible if there were massive reversed flow at the outlet but then the appropriateness of outlet B.C. might be in question.

RodriguezFatz July 11, 2013 04:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackmask (Post 439110)
It is possible if there were massive reversed flow at the outlet but then the appropriateness of outlet B.C. might be in question.

Yes, but he says "converge" in his initial post. I doubt he will get convergence in such a case.

sara22 July 12, 2013 02:14

yes my RUN become converge. But pressure value @ outlet is negative.for example pressure @ inlet B.C be 5687 Pa. and @ Outlet B.C be -879 Pa.

flotus1 July 12, 2013 03:33

Please post images of the velocity and pressure contours and of the residuals.

RodriguezFatz July 12, 2013 04:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by sara22 (Post 439291)
yes my RUN become converge. But pressure value @ outlet is negative.for example pressure @ inlet B.C be 5687 Pa. and @ Outlet B.C be -879 Pa.

Generally, negative pressures are no problem, since your pressures are gauge pressures. There is a large positive offset of 1e5 Pa to them...


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