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Old   July 9, 2017, 21:12
Question Calculating and Export Volume Fraction out of Mass Fraction
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Hi,

I am quite new to multi phase / multi species problems and I am new to fluent as well (great combination ). English isn't my first language, but I hope it will be okay.

The simulation I try to make:
I try to simulate a large air volume with a slow velocity inlet of a second gas (miscible, very similar to air, just slightly higher density). I tried VOF and Mixture multi phase model and I got the Volume Fraction as export (which is what I need).

I realized that through the slow velocity inlet, the diffusion part will be dominant and that is not covered by the multi phase models. Therefore, I want to use the multi species model "species transport".

These models are returning the mass fraction though and that is were I am stuck.

The problem:
My simulation returns mass fractions but I need volume fractions. I know from the math point of view how to calculate it, but I don't know how to tell fluent to do it for me. Like I want for every cell the volume fraction.

I want either calculate the volume fraction during the simulation (I would prefer that) or find a way to calculate that in the post processing (in ansys).

Maybe someone has some best practice experience for this kind of situation too? I would be very thankful for any advice.

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Kosch

PS: I searched the forum, but I do not even know which keywords I should search for my kind of problem. Sorry if I asked a very common question again.

Last edited by Kosch; July 9, 2017 at 21:15. Reason: typo
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Old   July 31, 2017, 21:18
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Hi,

In case someone found this topic on google:
I found the solution on youtube in a video about custom units:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewUzxsHIOM8


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