[mariam.sara]

Hello I am wondering how I can estimate average Nusselt number from Fluent for flow through a duct like the equation appear at the image attached?

Thanks

[mariam.sara]

Any reply is appreciated?

Originally Posted by mariam.sara

Hello I am wondering how I can estimate average Nusselt number from Fluent for flow through a duct like the equation appear at the image attached?

Thanks

[LuckyTran]

You can go under reports, do a surface integral of Nusselt number.

You can't do exactly what you have written (by integrating the average Nu at a given section) because that is for 1D flow, and Fluent is 3D. There is no convenient average Nusselt number at a cross-section because a cross-section is not conveniently generalizable to 3D.

[mariam.sara]

Thank you for the reply. I do not mean exactly what I mention at the relation actually I am running 3D channel and want to know how I can predict Nusselt average on it? You mean I need to find integral for Nusselt over the overall domain? is that will represent Nu average?

Originally Posted by LuckyTran

You can go under reports, do a surface integral of Nusselt number.

You can't do exactly what you have written (by integrating the average Nu at a given section) because that is for 1D flow, and Fluent is 3D. There is no convenient average Nusselt number at a cross-section because a cross-section is not conveniently generalizable to 3D.

[LuckyTran]

Originally Posted by mariam.sara

Thank you for the reply. I do not mean exactly what I mention at the relation actually I am running 3D channel and want to know how I can predict Nusselt average on it? You mean I need to find integral for Nusselt over the overall domain? is that will represent Nu average?

A type of weighted-integral, yes. Isn't that what an average is?

For example, an area-weighted average integral as you have written.