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February 28, 2017, 18:18 |
Melting/solification in CHT CFX for solids
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Hello everyone,
has anyone some experience in modelling melting and solidification in conjugate heat transfer in CFX? I am trying to model the phase change as a single step reaction. I defined the solid and liquid phases as two distinct materials, the liquid material having the reference enthalpy equal to the latent heat of the material. I created single step reaction, the reactant the solid, the product the liquid. For the reaction rate, I defined a CEL with an if condition, 1000 over the melting temperature, 0 otherwise. I created a reacting mixture and defined it for the default domain. The thing is, when I run it, the reaction doesn't take place . What am I doing wrong here? Regards |
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February 28, 2017, 23:23 |
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CFX does not have a solidification/melting model, so if you are going to model this you are going to have to set it up yourself. And I would not expect it will be easy..... You might have an easier time using a CFD software which has a solidification/melting model.
I have no experience in it myself, but many people over the years have raised questions on solidification/melting models. Do a search of the forum and see if they help. Also: There are a few possible approaches. * You can use a single phase approach but a momentum source term to "freeze" material which you deem to have solidified. This is simple to do but modelling subcooling and latent heat effects is a bit tricky. * You can have a liquid domain with single phase liquid and a solid domain, and use moving mesh to move the interface. Again getting the heat right at the phase change is challenging. * Your idea of using a reaction to model it is interesting. I can't see how you model subcooling/superheat with this method but if that is not significant then good. But I would expect some hoops to jump through and convergence difficulties as you try to get this to work. So I have not answered your question but hopefully this is some useful background. |
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January 31, 2018, 05:04 |
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Hmdl. Did you solve this problem?
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