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June 3, 2021, 19:25 |
3D fan zone tangential source term
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Jean F
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Hello,
I am currently running a CFD project in which I have to model a small fan. I was thinking of using the 3D fan zone cell condition. Not much information is available about it... I was wondering why the tangential source term was defined as follows: S_t = ( 2*W_fan*r ) / ( c_1*Omega ) where W_fan is the fan power, r the local radial distance from the fan axis Omega the fan operating angular velocity And c_1 an L^5 dimension term. This information is available in more details in the user guide in section 7.2.4. 3D fan zones, that I have attached. The user guide states that this equation is derived from a turbomachinery relation. I would like to know which one it is. It sounds completely counter intuitive that the angular velocity is inversely proportional to the source term. Why is it that a very low RPM case outputs higher tangential velocities in the fan compared than a high RPM case? Thanks for your attention, Jean |
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3d fan zone, fan, rpm, source term, tangential velocity |
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