Introduction to FLUENT

Introductory FLUENT Training

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FLUENT is an ANSYS Product

ANSYS, Inc.
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Global Headquarters in Canonsburg, PA - USA (south of Pittsburgh)

Development and sales offices in U.S. and around the world Publicly traded on NASDAQ stock exchange under ANSS

All FLUENT products will be integrated into the ANSYS product line.

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Orientation

Agenda
Monday FLUENT (Part 1) Tuesday FLUENT (Part 2) Wednesday GAMBIT (Part 1) Thursday GAMBIT (Part 2) Friday One-on-One Consulting

Facilities
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Lunches Restrooms Smoking area Visitor parking Visitor badges

Goals of introductory FLUENT training

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Problem setup

Creating the model Geometry and mesh generation Using the solver Problem setup, execution, and postprocessing

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Establish contact with your support staff Begin your own CFD project

We recommend working on relevant FLUENT and GAMBIT tutorials first.

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Agenda (Day 1)
8:00 8:30 8:30 9:00 9:00 9:30 9:30 11:15 11:15 12:00 12:00 1:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 3:00 4:00 4:00 5:00
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Introduction to ANSYS/Fluent Lecture Introduction to CFD Analysis Demonstration: Overview of the CFD Process Tutorial Session Tutorial #1 (3D Mixing Elbow) Lecture Solver Basics Lunch Lecture Boundary Conditions Tutorial Session Lecture Solver Settings Tutorial Session
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Agenda (Day 2)
8:00 9:00 9:00 10:30 10:30 11:15 11:15 12:00 12:00 1:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 3:00 4:00 4:00 5:00 Lecture Turbulence Modeling Tutorial Session Lecture Heat Transfer Modeling Lecture User Defined Functions Lunch Lecture (Optional) Multiphase Modeling Lecture (Optional) Reacting Flow Modeling Lecture (Optional) Moving Zone Models Tutorial Session

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Technical Support

Eleven business teams

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Turbomachinery & Aircraft Space, Defense & Marine Electronics and Semiconductor Glass, Plastics & Materials Power Generation Chemicals and Consumer Products Petroleum Health Care and Water HVAC and Appliances Automotive Power Train Automotive Aerodynamics/Thermal

Each team has its own sales and support/consulting engineers. FLUENTs User Services Center (USC) and Online Technical Support (OTS) portal created to enhance your access to technical support.
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Fluent User Services Center

www.fluentusers.com Please register today! Services include
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Release information Download updates Documentation Supported platform Defects and workarounds Presentations Training materials Online technical support

OTS overview and demo via web-based training Quick reference guide

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User Services Center Registration

Using a web browser, access the FLUENT corporate web page at www.fluent.com
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Take the Technical Support link under Services. Scroll down and click the Register Now button.

After registering, you will receive an e-mail with your USC login and password at the address you provided on the registration page.

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Online Technical Support

Access from the USC

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Same account as USC Services include:

Find solutions Ask a technical support question Monitor status of previous question Automatic updates

A web-based training module is available for download.

Exchange files with support staff (anonymous FTP)

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ftp to ftp.fluent.com Log in as ftp and use your e-mail address as the password. cd to incoming/xxx or outgoing/xxx and put files in binary mode.

xxx are the support engineers initials.

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Web-Based Trainings

Web-based training courses are available from our LearningCFD.com web site. Modules can be downloaded to your computer and viewed as many times as you like More modules are planned and will be available in the near future.

www.learningcfd.com/login/online/index.htm
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ANSYS U.S. Regional Conferences

Attend an ANSYS Regional Conference and:

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2007 User Group Meetings planned

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Meet with ANSYS/FLUENT users and staff. Attend training seminars. Learn other applications presented by users and staff. Provide input to future software development

South Houston, TX (February) East Washington DC area (April) West California (May) North Detroit area (September)

Exact dates will be announced in FLUENT publications.

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www.fluent.com Fluent News Fluent eNews ANSYS Solutions

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FLUENT Products Integrated Into ANSYS Product Suite

FLUENT General purpose CFD solver for a wide range of industries. Fidap Finite element-based CFD solver used for polymer processing applications. Polyflow Spectral element solver used for extrusion, blow molding and viscoeleastic flow applications. FLUENT for Catia FLUENT is embedded in Catia 5 to allow CFD to be done in the Catia PLM environment. GAMBIT Preprocessor for FLUENT, Fidap and Polyflow TGrid Preprocessor that can generate a tet/hybrid mesh from an imported surface mesh.

See the Appendix for more details on these products.

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FLUENT Products Integrated into ANSYS Product Suite

Icepak Has a custom-built interface on top of FLUENT solver used for analyzing electronics cooling applications. Airpak Has a custom-built interface on top of FLUENT solver used for solving ventilation/environmental contamination problems. MixSim - Has a custom-built interface on top of FLUENT solver used to solve mixing tank problems FloWizard Has a wizard-driven interface that sits on top of FLUENT and GAMBIT that can be easily used by non-CFD specialists. CoolSim An interface to perform analysis of data center air flow and cooling load requirements.

See the Appendix for more details on these products.

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Other ANSYS Products

ANSYS, Inc. family of products include the following:

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ANSYS Advanced nonlinear mechanical and multiphysics FEA solution capabilities ANSYS Workbench Complete environment for geometry modeling, mesh manipulation, structural/thermal analysis, and optimization, which is tightly integrated with CAD packages. ANSYS CFX General purpose CFD solver, including the coupled, parallel ANSYS CFX solver. ANSYS ICEM CFD Powerful meshing tools with general pre- and post-processing features, including ICEM CFD for generating complex CFD grids and AI*Environment for creating sophisticated structural FEA meshes

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ANSYS Workbench Overview

ANSYS Workbench comprises seven modules:

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Simulation for performing structural and thermal analyses using the ANSYS solver CFX-Mesh for generating a mesh for the ANSYS CFX solver DesignModeler for creating and modifying CAD geometry to prepare the solid model for use in Simulation or CFX-Mesh DesignExplorer and DesignExplorer VT for investigating the effect of variations input to the response of the system FE Modeler for translating a Nastran mesh for use in ANSYS Advanced CFD for performing CFD analyses using the ANSYS CFX solver. Advanced Meshing for generating complex CFD grids and sophisticated structural FEA meshes using ICEM CFD

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ANSYS Workbench Overview

Advanced Meshing

Advanced CFD

ANSYS Workbench

Simulation

DesignXplorer (VT)

DesignModeler
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Documentation

Documentation for all products is available at www.fluentusers.com A separate CD for each product is available which contains all manuals for that product. Two formats are available
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HTML Useful for general viewing and searching. Limited printing. Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Useful for printing high quality pages.

Fluent 6.3 Documentation Web Page at www.fluentusers.com

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Training Evaluation

Evaluation forms handed out with training materials. Your feedback helps us improve our training materials and methods. Please turn in your evaluations forms before you leave.

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Appendix

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FLUENT

FLUENT applications:
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External/internal automotive flows and in-cylinder flows High-speed aerodynamics Rocket flows Turbomachinery Chemical reactors Cyclones Bubble columns Mixing vessels Fluidized beds Flow-induced noise Moving and dynamic mesh Many more!

Surface pressure distribution in an automotive engine cooling jacket.

Instantaneous solids concentration in a riser indicating uniform distribution of catalyst at the riser head.

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FIDAP

FIDAP application examples:

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Pulsatile Flow in an Artery with a Compliant Vein Graft Velocity Contours

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Polymer processing Non-Newtonian flow in extrusion dies Thin film coating Biomedical Oxygenators, blood pumps, deforming arteries. Semiconductor crystal growth Other metal, glass, can chemical processing problems.
Initial Mesh

Deforming artery Rigid artery

U inlet = U 0 sin ( t )

Rigid Wall
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Time History Plot of Wall Shear Rate Showing Effect of Wall Deformations.
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POLYFLOW

POLYFLOW is a finite element solver for laminar, viscous flows Useful with complex rheology and free surfaces. Applications:
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Inverse Die Design: Determines die geometry based upon desired extruded shape.

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Extrusion, coextrusion, die design Blow molding, thermoforming Film casting, glass sheet forming/stretching, fiber drawing Chemical reactions, foaming Viscoelastic flows (memory effects)
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Requested part shape and calculated die lip shape for a rubber car door seal.

Blow molding simulation of a gas tank using the membrane element.

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FLUENT for CATIA V5 brings CFD analysis into the CATIA V5 PLM environment. Fully imbedded in the analysis infrastructure of CATIA V5:
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Flow volume extraction meshing simulation post-processing knowledgeware and data management

Full generative associativity between geometry and CFD models FLUENT for CATIA V5 can be deployed throughout the full product life cycle.

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GAMBIT

A single, integrated pre-processor for CFD analysis.

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Geometry creation Mesh generation Mesh quality examination Boundary zone assignment

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TGrid

A pre-processor for tet/hybrid mesh generation. Useful when starting with triangular surface mesh.

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IcePak

IcePak is focused on electronics cooling design:

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Cooling airflow, heat conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer

The user interface and automatic meshing are tailored for applications such as:
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Cabinet design Fan placement Board-level design Heat sink evaluation

Flow pathlines and temperature distribution in a fan-cooled computer cabinet.

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AirPak

Simplifies the design and analysis of ventilation systems Accurate, quick, and easy-to-use design tool that empowers designers and professionals, without extensive backgrounds in computer applications, to utilize the powers of advanced CFD tools Optimize your designs or pinpoint problems based on accurate predictions of airflow patterns, thermal conditions, comfort conditions, and/or contamination control effectiveness

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MixSim

MixSim is a specialized user interface that allows quick and easy set-up of mixing tank simulations. The tank size, bottom shape, baffle configuration, number and type of impellers, etc. are specified directly. The mesh and complete problem definition are then automatically created. Other features
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Impeller libraries from leading equipment manufacturers Transient sliding mesh, steady-state multiple reference frame models Non-Newtonian rheology

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FloWizard

Our first general purpose CFD product for non-specialists driven by FLUENT and GAMBIT. FloWizards focus is on ease of use and automation:
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It is a highly-automated, first pass simulation tool for use in basic flow and heat transfer calculations. A wizard-based interface guides the user through all the steps of a CFD analysis, from problem setup to post-processing. The user is insulated from specialized CFD parameters, such as discretization and turbulence model choices.

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ANSYS Workbench Overview

ANSYS Workbench also consists of the TurboSystem, which is an industry specific solution for designing rotating machines. It consists of the following additional modules:
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BladeModeler an efficient 3-D rotating machinery design tool for bladed components. TurboGrid a high quality hexahedral meshing tool for blade design.

BladeModeler

TurboGrid

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DesignModeler Overview

DesignModeler (DM) is a component of ANSYS Workbench. A CAD-like modeler with analysis modeling goals:
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Performs unique geometry modification capabilities for simulation:

Feature Simplification Enclosure Operation Fill Operation Spot Welds Split Surfaces Surface Model Extraction Planar Body Extraction Beam Modeling

DesignModeler

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DesignModeler Overview

Contains parametric modeling capability:

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2D Sketcher with Dimensions and Constraints

Integrates directly with ANSYS Workbench modules

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Simulation CFX-Mesh Advanced Meshing (ICEM) DesignXplorer BladeModeler

DesignModeler

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CFX-Mesh Overview

CFX-Mesh is a component of Workbench designed for generating CFD meshes for the ANSYS CFX Solver. Creates mesh in solid regions
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Simple user inputs Tightly coupled with DesignModeler Hybrid mesh approach Capable of generating large meshes Advanced mesh refinement controls Produces a native-format CFX gtm file

CFX-Mesh
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CFX-Mesh Overview

Hybrid mesh approach Triangular surface mesh Prismatic/Inflated mesh Pyramidal intermediate elements Tetrahedral mesh generator

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