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Old   June 8, 2010, 11:05
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Hello everybody,

I would like to ask for help regarding a problem I m trying to solve on CFX 12.1. It is related to multicomponent diffusion (air and syngas(Co/h2) ) in a specific fuel injection geometry at high reynolds number (highly turbulent).

I would like to specify air and syngas at different temperatures and analyse their fractions after mixing. The air has to be a temperature approx 800K and syngas is at 300K. The syngas is injected through 5 orifices in two tubes intersecting inside a main tube through which air is passed.

I am facing a problem that after a certain distance from mixing...they start to "demix" and isosurfaces turn from a conical structure into a thin sheet at the outlet which is physically wrong.
However, when I tried to check with say Air and Ch4, the thin sheet is never formed and something physically possible is simulated. Therefore, I concluded that mesh is not the issue.

However, I am still not sure about several things:
A. I am not sure about how diffusion is modeled in CFX.
B. In post cfx I cannot see any temperature field. The temperate for all the components everywhere is 298K even though I changed it in materials tab.
C. How does it define inter-component diffusivity constants at non default temperatures?

Please let me know if you have answers to any of the questions or you need any more information.

Thanks for your help!

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Gagan
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