[Far]

Hi All.

It is my observation that on Fluent forum there is large audience and therefore there are many question posted on forum on daily basis.

Here is the statics for Sunday April 28, 2013 for different forums.

Ansys forum 59 viewing (total for Fluent, CFX and Ansys meshing forum)
Fluent 29 viewing
CFX 15 viewing
ANSYS Meshing Forum 9 viewing

Main Forum 9 Viewing

floefd-floworks-flotherm 2 viewing

Numeca 2 viewing

Openfoam 16 viewing

Phoenics 1 viewing

SU2 1 viewing

CD-adapco 2 viewing

In addition to that no of threads/posts posted on Fluent forum on daily basis is way higher than any other forum and therefore threads go away unanswered.

What do you think it would be better to split Fluent forum into sub-forums.

What do you think about the following sub-forums? Here is my idea about sub-forums and needs discussion:

1. General discussion
2. Transient problems
3. UDF related issues (already there)
4. Multiphase
5. Combustion
6. Turbomachinery, wind turbine and mixing tanks
7. Heat Transfer
8. Convergence related issues ( I am not sure about this since in all areas of cfd convergence can be treated differently. Similarly general forum can create confusion)
9. Advance topics (Rocket propulsion etc)
10. Transition modelling
11. Cavitation
12. Solver settings

Thanks

[oj.bulmer]

Subforums seems a good idea, but too much fragmentation may not be helpful. It may confuse the members while posting since their problem can be classified under many headings, at the same time, may discourage the members from visiting posts on unfamiliar topics.

The most appropriate way to do this classification can be understanding the statistics of different topics on the FLUENT forum. But in the absence of the data, the ones below seem relevant:

1) Multiphase
2) Heat transfer
3) UDF (Already there)
4) Turbomachinery
5) Miscellaneous

First four are specialized topics and folks who excel in each of these topics can advance the discussions there. All rest can be classified under miscellaneous, since there may not be frequent questions related to niche topics (eg combustion, rocket propulsion etc) anyway. The owners who want answers for old/unanswered topics can always reply in the post to kick it to the front page.

Cheers
OJ

[pete]

I agree that we should not split it up too much. Statistics on which different topics are discussed would be good to have. I browsed through the current forum and another subforum division could be something like:

• Fluent (main forum still there)
  • Solver, numerics & convergence
  • Modeling (turbulence, transition, combustion, sprays, cavitation, ...)
  • Applications (turbines, cars, heat exchangers, ...)
  • UDF & Scheme

This kind of division would split the content up in a different but also logical way: solver, modeling & applications. Most questions are mainly in one of these topics I guess, but sometimes it can be difficult to judge if the convergence problem someone has is related to numerics, the turbulence model used or the application modeled . We could ad more specialized topics like UDF also. What do you think about this?