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June 8, 2017, 03:24 |
Using created surface to measure mass flow rate
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MMatt
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Hello,
In Ansys CFX, I have a pipe system from which I have extracted the water volume. I have created surfaces in different sections of the water volume (using the surface from edges) so I can check the flow through the different pipes, but either I have an error telling me these surfaces cannot be imported in PRE, or either they do not appear if I set them as construction elements. How can I use surfaces I created to calculate the mass flow rate through them. Thanks! |
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June 9, 2017, 16:42 |
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Erik
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I would do this in CFD-Post not in CFX-Pre.
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June 12, 2017, 08:18 |
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June 12, 2017, 11:32 |
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You can easily analyze the water volume in CFD-Post by creating contours at different cross sections/planes. CFD-Post is built for these things. Hope it helps.
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June 13, 2017, 08:27 |
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Unfortunately, due to the way the CAD model is, there is no cross-section surface I can directly select and ask Ansys to compute things from (hence why I created these surfaces). But I don't know how to use these created surfaces to compute information. This information seems to be hard to find. Why? |
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June 13, 2017, 08:36 |
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urosgrivc
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Go under: =>Calculators tab click => function calculator
In cfx post ofcourse make your expresion by clicking the boxes here you will be able to see your plane under location. there is probably anithing you like to calculate |
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June 19, 2017, 03:07 |
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This baffled me too when I started to use CFX. In STAR-CCM+, you can just add surfaces in pre processing and create monitor points on those surfaces (massflow etc). In CFX, you can't do that. Don't ask me why. It's super annoying.
In CFX Post, you can add those surfaces but that is not really an option if you want to monitor/plot for example the massflow through a specific surface over time. For a year or so now, you can add "user surfaces" for monitor purposes in PRE, but that feature hasn't really worked for me so far. Haven't tried with Ansys 18 yet though further reading: Section/Plane monitor in CFX Stopped in routine Write_SurfaceUser |
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June 19, 2017, 10:09 |
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One way I tried is to create a plane and impose a circular radius to its radius so that it only covers the pipe I want the measure on, but it is a real pain to do it for many different pipes! |
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June 19, 2017, 10:45 |
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there is a way,
you can split the domain into two pieces vith that plane, than you are able to make a interface and that can be your plane in cfx pre you can than make monitor point for this conection |
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June 20, 2017, 05:56 |
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Maxim
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true, but you then have to rely on Ansys "power" to not screw up the interface numerically.
Or is that trick "common practice" for CFX users? |
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June 20, 2017, 07:18 |
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urosgrivc
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It is probably not common, this is more of a workaround the problem
I don’t see any problems at the interface, the connection can easily be meshed node to node (1:1) and CFX won’t even know it is there. Of course I don’t use this method but it should work. |
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June 20, 2017, 08:52 |
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So the problem is how to create many planes? Because as you already said you can do that with monitors.
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April 30, 2019, 11:17 |
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Wayne Hable
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flowrate = massFlow()@surface_in_question
That is the expression I'd use. That should give you the flowrate. |
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