UDF for solid density
 

Hello everyone !

I have a conjugated heat transfer problem where water is cooling a multi-constituant wall.

I want to avoid setting different zones in my msh so I implemented a UDF to change the properties of the solid depending on the location. So the UDF is really simple :

DEFINE_PROPERTY(density,c,t)
{
real ro;
C_CENTROID(x,c,t);
if (x[0]>0.17)
ro=1650;
else
ro=7800;
C_UDMI(c,t,dens)=ro;
return ro;

The UDF compiles well and runs but when I plot contours of density all, it does not show the correct values I had put in the UDF. However the UDM values are correct !

Wich values are used in the calculations : the values showed in the contour for density all or the values showed in the contour for the UDM ??

Thank you for your help !!

GG

I did something similar, defining the thermal conductivity of a fluid.

I would remove the line "C_UDMI(c,t,dens)=ro;"

Then in fluent, in the material tab, select user defined as the specification method for density and choose you UDF "density".

Thats what I did.
The UDM was just a test to try and figure out the problem ...

If I plot contours of density I dont get the correct values. But contours of UDM is ok !

I have similar problem. I would appreciate a quick response.

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