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LuckyTran February 13, 2019 13:23

You do laminar when the flow is laminar and turbulent when the flow is turbulent.


You use steady when the flow is steady and transient when the flow is transient.

FMDenaro February 13, 2019 14:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by vidyadhar (Post 724672)
Hello Lucky Tran,
Thank you for the reply.
If I want to simulate a natural convection problem over a heat sink, how can I decide that I have to use Laminar analysis or turbulent analysis when I change parameters like heat supply to the heat sink, dimensions of the heat sink etc.

If I have to do Laminar analysis, how to decide whether to chose steady state simulation or transient simulation.. if I am interested in steady state solution.


Thanks in advance!
vidyadhar




If you run a transient solver and your solution has a physical steady state, you will reach it after the time derivatives vanish. Conversely, running a steady state solver in a flow problem that does not admit a physical steady state will drive you to get oscillations in the residuals.
In any case, you need to know the physics of your problem if you want to do a correct CFD analysis.
A CFD code is only a stupid numerical algnorithm, it says nothing if you are not able to understand what you are doing


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