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November 26, 2014, 12:50 |
Pipe flow heat transfer
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hi friends
i am a new user of openfoam and i need to simulate the heat transfer of water in a pipe whit the air out side. can i use bouyantpimplefoam solver. or i should use chtmultiregionfoam solver. i create the geometry with wedge type boundry and toposet rule. please help me |
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November 26, 2014, 15:19 |
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You should use bouyantPimpleFoam solver
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November 26, 2014, 15:22 |
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You should use chtmultiRegionFoam solver, because in your problem, you have different zones
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November 27, 2014, 13:53 |
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thanks alot nimasam
but i think that in chtmultiregionfoam solver u should have a solid zone. am i right??? thanks. |
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November 27, 2014, 14:04 |
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Hi,
With the description of the problem you've provided, you can use almost any solver from solvers/heatTransfer folder. Do you need evolution of the flow field or steady state? Do you need to account for heat transfer outside the tube (not heat just loss through the pipe boundary but heat transfer in air)? Do you need gravity (if you just need to simulate heat transfer in water in the tube within certain assumptions you can even use pimpleFoam and scalarTransport function object)? |
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November 27, 2014, 14:25 |
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thanks for your response.
yes i need the heat transfer outside the tube .and i can consider the problem steady state or transient.. and i should say that i have two zones. on for water inside the tube. and other for air outside the tube. |
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November 27, 2014, 14:43 |
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Then it's chtMultiRegionFoam as nimasam said in his last message, because buoyantPimpleFoam assumes single component medium.
Though, I'm trying to imagine tube, water inside, air outside, properties of the water, heat transfer capabilities of the air. And, well, surely I can imagine a desire to cool a pipe with air flow but it looks a little bit strange. |
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November 27, 2014, 14:58 |
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[QUOTE=alexeym;521437]Then it's chtMultiRegionFoam as nimasam said in his last message, because buoyantPimpleFoam assumes single component medium.
Though, I'm trying to imagine tube, water inside, air outside, properties of the water, heat transfer capabilities of the air. And, well, surely I can imagine a desire to cool a pipe with air flow but it looks a little bit strange.[/QUO why is strange?? |
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November 27, 2014, 15:14 |
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Well, I'd say it's a simulation for the sake of simulation (or you've omitted certain details). As with your current description you still can assume the air as boundary condition. Or if you're interested in the thermo-flow in air, you can assume water as boundary condition.
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