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phani45 May 25, 2015 00:39

Regarding MFIX
 
Hello friends,

I'm planning to work on a problem involving gas-solid fluidized bed with internal heat exchanger (electric rod, tube heat exchanger etc....). I'm willing to use MFIX software as I found that it is most preferred over other Open source software.
My concern is about modelling and meshing in MFIX.
Can anyone let me know whether we can generate complex mesh is MFIX? or shall I shift to any other Open source software?

sharonyue May 25, 2015 13:25

Um, I heard of it but never use it, seemingly MFIX is powerful on two-fluid model. Thats all what I know..

If someone can give a comment in detail such as is it robust? can MFIX deal unstructured-mesh? That will be better.

jeff.dietiker June 1, 2015 15:06

For moderately complex geometries, you can use predefined shapes (quadric surfaces) to represent cylinders and spheres for example. For more complex geometries, you can use a CAD software to generate an STL file and import it in MFiX.

MFiX uses a structured mesh, and the complex geometry is represented using the Cartesian cut-cell technique.

phani45 June 8, 2015 17:07

Thank you Jeff
 
Thank you Jeff :)

harsha_kulkarni December 12, 2018 07:25

Can we import the mesh created in other software like open foam into mfix????

evamaria January 27, 2021 05:33

Did you figure out if and how it is possible to import OpenFOAM Meshes to mfix?

harsha_kulkarni January 27, 2021 06:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by evamaria (Post 794578)
Did you figure out if and how it is possible to import OpenFOAM Meshes to mfix?

No not yet


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