mixing flow
 

The model is basically a large diameter duct with a thin injection tube on the side (T-shape with 2 inlets and 1 outlet). After running the sym, the air speed at the interior goes to the order of 10^16 m/s! During the first iterations, the speed starts going crazy at the inlet of the small tube. Afterwards the whole system has this unrealistic velocity gradients. The inlets speeds are supposed to be around 15 m/s and I`ve tried for boundery conditions the "velocity inlet" and "pressure inlet". I`ve also tried refining the mesh and using various turbulance models. I was hoping to get something close to laminar flow (15m/s) at the center of the tubes. I`d appreciate it if you have any idea of what`s causing this problem :confused:.

How did you set the outlet boundary?

zhao peng, thank you for your reply.
I set the outlet boundary as a pressure outlet, with stagnation pressure of 1atm

what is the pressure differential between major inlet and outlet?and is the air compressible?

Between the inlet and outlet of the large pipe is 135 Pa and the gauge total pressure of the injection inlet is 540 Pa. This way I got a initialization speed of 15 m/s in the large duct and 30m/s in injection tube.
Thank you again.

I forgot to mention I`m treating it as incompressible beacuse of the low speed of the airflow.

Dear kikimon

There is something wrong with your boundary condition and/or operating pressure. The veloity you obtain let me think about a pressure differential between the inlet and oulet of around 100000Pa. What might happen is this:if you set your operatiing pressure at, let say 101325, then you should set all the pressure as gauge pressure, then your outlet pressure will be zero and the inlet pressure will be 0+delta_P where delta_p his suppose to be the pressure differential that you want beetween the inlet and outlet.

Hope it's help
Martin

Thank you Martin for your response. I did set the outlet pressure as 0Pa and took into consideration the gauge term. Anyway, the problem is solved, it was the solver equations I was using. I ran 40 iterations with simple-standard and 100 more with coupled-second order and finally got it to converge with reasonalbe quatities. It might be something I should`ve known, but this was the first all-by-myself fluelnt sym, thank you both for your answers.