User defined Material database in FLUENT
 

Dear All,
I want to add new material in FLUENT database i.e. in User Defined Database, kindly give me informaion about how to create *.scm file for this purpose, it is mentioned that it can be created by Editor but i am unable to find this.
Please reply me if anyone have idea about this.

Thanks & Regards,
Ritesh

The User Defined Database is exactly what you mentioned a *.scm or rather a Scheme file loaded into fluent. An example given by Ansys is:

(air
fluid
(chemical-formula . #f)
(density (constant . 1.225)
(premixed-combustion 1.225 300))
(specific-heat (constant . 1006.43))
(thermal-conductivity (constant . 0.0242))
(viscosity (constant . 1.7894e-05)
(sutherland 1.7894e-05 273.11 110.56)
(power-law 1.7894e-05 273.11 0.666))
(molecular-weight (constant . 28.966))
)

This is found at http://aerojet.engr.ucdavis.edu/flue...ug/node321.htm

The above text is what you would copy and paste into a text editor and save with the .scm extension.

Once you save your material, then it can be loaded into fluent when you click on the User-Defined-Database link in the Materials window.

Notice that the material name "air" is first and the material type "fluid" is second. Each parameter described in the Scheme file will be loaded into the new material's properties.

Tanks Hershey,
for this suggestion, but i am not able to create file with .scm file, how it is to be created in which text editor.

The most simple program to use would be Notepad in Windows. Open up a new Notepad file and paste the Scheme language that I posted earlier into the Notepad window. When you are done, click "File->Save As..." Then save the file with a name like "material.scm" without the quotes. Underneath the File name, there should be a "Save as type" box and it probably says "Text Documents (*.txt)". Click that and change it to "All Files (*.*)" so you do not save the *.txt extension to your *.scm file. Then click Save.

You will notice that the file you just saved does not have any associated programs that open it automatically, but Notepad can still read it and Fluent will definitely read it.

I have the same problem. i used the mentioned method using notepad, but it is't correct.there any other method to create file.scm

I am sorry, but I forgot a set of parentheses around the material that I specified above.

The correct way should be:

(
(air fluid
(chemical-formula . #f)
(density (constant . 1.225)
(premixed-combustion 1.225 300))
(specific-heat (constant . 1006.43))
(thermal-conductivity (constant . 0.0242))
(viscosity (constant . 1.7894e-05)
(sutherland 1.7894e-05 273.11 110.56)
(power-law 1.7894e-05 273.11 0.666))
(molecular-weight (constant . 28.966))
)
)

As for the scheme file, it is just an extension type. Use whichever editor you prefer. With something like notepad, simply saying "material.scm" will not do because usually the default file type is a ".txt". However, if you specify the save file type to "All Files "."" then you remove the automatic .txt appending to your save name. Then the ".scm" that you have in the file name will be used.

Alternatively, you may have a blank ".scm" file and load it into Fluent. Then you will have the option to copy materials (solid, fluid or mixture) that you specified in Fluent over to your scheme file. That makes it convenient if you ever need to recall the materials you used in previous simulations.

Please post with questions about this, but review how file types are saved. I have verified that the above method now works. However, I want to make sure that my instructions are clear.

How to add Solid materials having impurities?
 

I'm working on Copper electro-refining.

The composition of the Anode, lets say 98%, rest are Zn, Silver, Gold, Al etc. How do I define/ create new solid material like this?

I think I have to create User Defined database, but how to write it..properties can be found from literature but how will I specify the composition of different materials.

I want to create a User-defined database of which material has temperature dependency on properties. How to create such a database?

use fluent GUI to create materials, then save data base to file

best regards

How to save material in data base file? can you please elaborate. Thanks

Dear Thedal,

did you manage to import such data into fluent, with temperature dependency features?
I mean, I have some Physico-chemical properties data, however, they are versus the change in temperature. So, could you guys kindly help me out with how to do this?

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