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Old   December 13, 2006, 10:01
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Hi , I have a 2D simulation (flow with 2 species S1 and S2 in a channel) I have an amount of specie S1 at inlet and I want to have a certain amount of the same specie S1 at the outlet : So I manage to get D1 a "density" of specie S1 to be removed (Unit : Kg/m3) for all the domain .

If I use source = - D1 x C_VOLUME for each cell I would get the mass (kg) of specie S1 to be removed per cell . But how to have it in Kg/m3/s (which the unit of source)?.

I have a steady simulation.

Thanks any kind of help. PK

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Old   December 13, 2006, 16:11
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Are you using a UDF? Could you not just use the source option in the base version of Fluent? That is boundary condition (of fluid)->source->set source.

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Old   December 14, 2006, 04:40
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Hi Yes I am using a UDF, but I have the same problem by using this boundary conditions features through the GUI . with the UDF I do this : To be more precise in my question :

-1 : I know the mass fraction of Si at the inlet : MF_S1_inlet

-2 : I know the mass fraction of Si at the outlet : MF_S1_oulet .

So I can get the mass (Kg )which should removed all over the Domain and so have this removal "density" of S1 (D1) all over the Domain (Kg/m3).

So when I am using DEFINE_SOURCE :

DEFINE_SOURCE(remove_S1,cell,thread,dS,eqn)

{

removal_density_S1 = D1;

source = -removal_density_S1 *C_VOLUME(cell,thread);

dS[eqn] = 0;

return source; /*(so it is a mass)*/

}

By doing this I am not able to get the MF_S1_oulet : it seems that not enough S1 is removed.

I am running a steady state simulation Thanks a lot for your help
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Old   December 14, 2006, 16:06
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I didn't see any obvious problems in your code. It looks like you just want to have constant removal rate - why don't you just use the built in boundary condition source? Does it not work to deplete a species? I know it works fine to add a species source in 2D. There are lots of ways to go wrong in UDFs.

I am using a UDF to add a source term for a species evolved from a particle. Fluent gives the macro DEFINE_DPM_SOURCE which I was going to use, but I started just directly changing the species storage variable. It has not caused any problems, so I have not bothered with the source macro.

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