hi, i am simulating quenching of heated cylinder in oil with natural convection. i want to ask four question 1.what is effect of g and operating density in opersting condition.what density and temperature should i use to get sonverged solution. 2.mr Ra is < 10e8 suold i use turbulence model 1equ or two equ. 3.in manuual it is mentioned that u use pressure p' in ur simulation.what this p' means. 4.during my simulation my monitors show on heated cylinder wall temp 325 this is temp on which i initialised my simualtion.but actually my temeprature is 1473 and it should fall with time in transient anlysis rather that it increase. can anbody help in this regard. nabeel

1. The operating density won't matter too much as long as you have defined temperature dependent density in the materials panel. 2. For a viscous material like oil, use a two equation model. 3. p' = p + rho x g x h 4. After initializing the problem, set the initial temperature of your cylinder to 1473 using the patch command.

hi, u have said that patch velocity to cylinder but in my modeling rectanlge simulating fluid and a small area having thickness of cylinser area is subtracted from large area.i have given temperature 1473 to small area inner wall and given thickness of wall and outer wall having same temperaure but no thickness.is am on right path.patching rectangle is considering the fluid is at 1473!. second solution is not converging how i can judge that solution is going right.can any method.using segregated solver and presto for pressure second order for other. nabeel

You cannot use a wall to model this transient. A wall in FLUENT can have a thermal resistance, but had no thermal capacity (i.e., density and specific heat capacity = 0). You need to model the cylinder as a solid, so it will have a thermal capacity.

hi, but in defining solid i have shadow BC what should i do then.how can i handle this shadow condition nabeel

If you leave the default BCs for the walls at the solid/fluid interface, they just track the temperature of the underlying solid.

hi, i have modeled solid region and fluid region.i meshed them both separately.i intialised solution at 313k.then i patched 1473 to solid zone.but a after solution i have found no gradien all fluid is at 313 and solid zone is at 1473.i think no interaction is taking place.second is neccesary to give wall 1473 temperature. nabeel

Go back into GAMBIT and merge coincident edges. I think you have two, uncoupled sets of nodes along the common edges. This can happen if you create your solid and fluid areas using booleans.

hi, i am very grateful that u are guiding me in this problem.sir can i use split faces command instead of subtract command.merge command is not working and giving error that egdes are not connected.secong can i merge faces. nabeel

Yes, I think split faces should work.

hi, i want to ask that then i use link edges command of fluid faces and solid faces.to transfer temperature data. nabeel

hi, i want to ask that then i use link edges command of fluid faces and solid faces.to transfer temperature data.or i should use connect edge command nabeel

hi, when i use subtract comd it does not merge edges b/c they do not coincide.what should i do. nabeel

Don't use booleans. I think tou have a right-circular cylinder in a square tank. Create the surfaces directly from the vertices to the lines to the surfaces to the volumes. This will ensure everything is connected.

hi, after merging edges i meshed domain.but they are not exporting mesh b/c it is not considering continuum type b/c of virtual face . second i am doing analysis in 2d and having rectangle showing oil and cylinder geometry profile . sir can u guide me nabeel

You should still be able to mesh this directly. Create four vertices for the corners of your tank and four more for the corners of your cylinder. Create lines between the vertices and then create faces from the lines. See figure.

x-----------x |\ /| | \ / | | x-----x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | x-----x | | / \ | |/ \| x-----------x

x = Vertex | and - = Faces

This will have all connected geometry.

hi, i have splitted my domain as u said.when i use rampant solver it export mesh and boundary condition and continum type are quite accurately defined.can u tell me that is my solver type is correct and what effect it has on problem. nabeel

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about RAMPANT. We only use FLUENT.

hi, sir ihave got solution and how i judge that my solution is accurate if it is not converging.my residuals are less than one nabeel

hi, rampant is solver density based code used for unstructured mesh in fvm.sir it is used in before exporting mesh file in gambit.bc are dependent on solver type. sir how i judge the solution is right nabeel