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Old   April 22, 2020, 11:34
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Hello everyone,

I am struggling with the discrete ordinate model in TUI. After succesfully loading a case and turning On the discrete ordinate model with 2 bands, I fail at defining a material refrative index. Here is the relevant part:

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/define/materials/change-create/glass/ glass glass is a solid

change Density? [no] no 
change Cp (Specific Heat)? [no] no 
change Thermal Conductivity? [no] no 
change Absorption Coefficient? [no] yes 
Absorption Coefficient

methods: (constant piecewise-linear piecewise-polynomial polynomial gray-band user-defined-gray-band user-defined)
new method [constant] gray-band 
band1 (1/m) [0] 0.1 
band2 (1/m) [0] 0.8 

change Scattering Coefficient? [no] yes

Scattering Coefficient
methods: (constant piecewise-linear piecewise-polynomial polynomial gray-band user-defined-gray-band user-defined)
new method [constant] gray-band 
band1 (1/m) [0] 0. 
band2 (1/m) [0] 0. 

change Scattering Phase Function? [no] no 
change Refractive Index? [no] yes 
Refractive Index

methods: (constant refractive-band)
new method [constant] refractive-band no data required.
As you can see I can define the absorption and scattering coefficients but for some reason not the refractive index.

I am using Ansys Fluent 17.1 in 3D.

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Old   April 26, 2020, 16:59
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Try list-properties for glass and see what it shows for refractive-index.
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Old   April 27, 2020, 04:20
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Thank you for your interest in the question vinerm.

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Try list-properties for glass and see what it shows for refractive-index.
Before the command detailed in the first post (/define/materials/change-create/glass/ glass), I get

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property name                        units       method      value(s)       
-----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  ---------------
...
Absorption Coefficient               1/m         constant    0              
Scattering Coefficient               1/m         constant    0              
Scattering Phase Function                        isotropic   #f             
Refractive Index                                 constant    1

And after the command, it is changed to

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property name                        units       method      value(s)       
-----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  ---------------
...
Absorption Coefficient               1/m         gray-band   (0.1 0.8)      
Scattering Coefficient               1/m         gray-band   (0 0)          
Scattering Phase Function                        isotropic   #f             
Refractive Index                                 refractive-band  #f
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Could be a bug in that version. It is showing unassigned (#f). One way out is to write a user-define material database after defining the coefficients for the bands using GUI. The user-defined database is written in Scheme language and you can open it in any text editor. Look for the values that you have defined. Now, anytime you want to change the values, delete the existing material, change the values in the Scheme file, and reload the Scheme File via User-Defined Database. You won't have to modify any of the properties using the commands that you are using. Modify all together within the Scheme file and just read it.
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Old   April 28, 2020, 12:48
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All right, thanks for the tip
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