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Old   March 15, 2013, 07:01
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Hello philflow,

have you written an FAQ or a short summary of your experience with an axial fan simulation? I'm working on the same problem. It would be very nice if you have something like an summary for me!

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Old   March 16, 2013, 05:59
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The documentation describes source terms and source term coefficients pretty well.
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Old   April 18, 2013, 05:00
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Hello again,

I have problems to simulate an axial fan. In the image, the test case I am working with is shown. The green bar, is my subdomain.

I am able to set a momentum source to get the exact pressure rise. But this is only half the way I have to go.

I would like to set a specific pressure rise and a volumeflow rate.
My idea is to simulate different blades in my fan. the first blade has an pressure rise of 35[kPa] and a volume rate of 70 [m^3/s] the second one has a pressure rise of 35 [kPa] and a volumeflow rate of 50[m^3/s]. So in my opinion the subdomain is a "black box" for my blades. And I am able to simulate different blades.

I have tried a lot of possibilities.
1.I rotate the subdomain with the frame change model "stage" and give a axial momentum source
2.I try to give an axial and a theta momentum source
3. I give an axial momentum source and an energy sourc


I have no more real ideas how to simulate different blades in my nacelle.
I hope someone can help me.
Thanks a lot.
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Old   April 18, 2013, 05:06
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here is the image
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95041584@N02/8660319970/
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Old   April 18, 2013, 07:29
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I think you will find that specifying the pressure rise and flow rate is over-specifying the flow. You specify either the pressure rise or the flow rate but not both. You can even specify the pressure rise as a function of flow rate (or vice-versa) - in fact the is recommended if you are trying to find the operating point and you do not know the exact fan speed.
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Old   April 23, 2013, 11:04
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Is there no way to specify both parameters? In my thougths it is like I have two different Operating Points which I can define. Or like two different blades.
Blade 1: pressure difference 35 [kPa] with 70 [m^3 s^-1]
Blade 2: pressure difference 35 [kPa] with 60 [m^3 s^-1]

With only the Momentum Source I can give a pressure change and a result is a volumeflow rate.
The task of my simulation is to find solutions for my nacelle with different blades.
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Glenn is correct. You are overspecifying the problem. I assume your blades have more than one operating point. You should have a mdot vs Pdrop for each blade.

You can input this into your model, and your model will find the operating point using the Pdrop of your system.
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Old   July 16, 2013, 08:11
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In fluent there is only possibility of defining momentum source in either x,y & z directions. If we want to define momentum source over a cylinder, then how to do this in fluent. Hey guys please help me regarding this, as this option is not there in fluent.

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Old   July 16, 2013, 09:24
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This is a CFX forum. Try Fluent Forum.

But with not much thought put into the answer, you could use a coordinate transform to put your source into cartesian coords.
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