Ansys Fluent Simulation Report

Analyst Souhardya Banerjee

Date 11/14/2022 04:16 PM

Table of Contents
1 System Information
2 Geometry and Mesh
2.1 Mesh Size
2.2 Mesh Quality
2.3 Orthogonal Quality
3 Simulation Setup
3.1 Physics
3.1.1 Models
3.1.2 Material Properties
3.1.3 Cell Zone Conditions
3.1.4 Boundary Conditions
3.1.5 Reference Values
3.2 Solver Settings
4 Run Information
5 Solution Status
6 Plots
7 Contours
8 XY Plots

System Information

Application Fluent

Settings axi, double precision, density-based implicit, Spalart-Allmaras

Version 21.2.0-10201

Source Revision fcb749f05e

Build Time May 28 2021 13:54:44 EDT

CPU 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz

OS Windows

Geometry and Mesh

Cells Faces Nodes

285750 572795 287046

Mesh Quality

Name Type Min Orthogonal Quality Max Aspect Ratio

solid-design2d_surface_surface_mesh_ Quad Cell 0.65799753 128.49988

Orthogonal Quality

Simulation Setup

Physics

Models

Model Settings

Space Axisymmetric

Time Steady

Viscous Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model

Production Option Vorticity

Heat Transfer Enabled

Material Properties
 Fluid

 air

Density ideal gas

Cp (Specific Heat) 1006.43 J/(kg K)

Thermal Conductivity 0.0242 W/(m K)

Viscosity sutherland

Molecular Weight 28.966 kg/kmol

Thermal Expansion Coefficient 0

Speed of Sound none

 Solid

 aluminum

Density 2719 kg/m^3

Cp (Specific Heat) 871 J/(kg K)

Thermal Conductivity 202.4 W/(m K)

Cell Zone Conditions

 solid-design2d_surface_surface_mesh_

Material Name air

Specify source terms? no

Specify fixed values? no

Frame Motion? no

Laminar zone? no

Porous zone? no

Boundary Conditions
 Inlet

 freestream_inlet_mesh_

Gauge Pressure [Pa] 0

Mach Number 0.01

Temperature [K] 300

Turbulent Specification Method Turbulent Viscosity Ratio

Turbulent Viscosity Ratio 5

 jet_inlet_mesh_

Reference Frame Absolute

Gauge Total Pressure [Pa] 19930

Supersonic/Initial Gauge Pressure [Pa] 0

Total Temperature [K] 300

Direction Specification Method Direction Vector

Build artificial walls to prevent reverse flow? no

Turbulent Viscosity Ratio 5

 Outlet

 outlet_mesh_

Backflow Reference Frame Absolute

Gauge Pressure [Pa] 0

Pressure Profile Multiplier 1

Backflow Total Temperature [K] 300

Backflow Direction Specification Method Normal to Boundary

Turbulent Specification Method Turbulent Viscosity Ratio

Backflow Turbulent Viscosity Ratio 5

Acoustic Wave Model Off

Backflow Pressure Specification Total Pressure

Build artificial walls to prevent reverse flow? no

Average Pressure Specification? no

Specify targeted mass flow rate no

 Wall

 nozzle_wall_mesh_

Wall Thickness [m] 0

Heat Generation Rate [W/m^3] 0

Material Name aluminum

Thermal BC Type Heat Flux

Heat Flux [W/m^2] 0

Wall Motion Stationary Wall

Shear Boundary Condition No Slip

Wall Surface Roughness 0

Wall Roughness Height [m] 0

Wall Roughness Constant 0.5

Convective Augmentation Factor 1

 Axis

axis_mesh_ axis

Reference Values

Area 1 m^2

Density 1.225 kg/m^3

Enthalpy 0 J/kg

Length 1m

Pressure 0 Pa

Temperature 288.16 K

Velocity 1 m/s

Viscosity 1.7894e-05 kg/(m s)

Ratio of Specific Heats 1.4

Yplus for Heat Tran. Coef. 300

Reference Zone solid-design2d_surface_surface_mesh_

Flow True

Modified Turbulent Viscosity True

 Numerics

Absolute Velocity Formulation True

 Under-Relaxation Factors

Modified Turbulent Viscosity 0.8

Turbulent Viscosity 1

Solid 1

 Discretization Scheme

Flow Second Order Upwind

Modified Turbulent Viscosity First Order Upwind

 Time Marching

Solver Implicit

Courant Number 3.75

 Solution Limits

Minimum Absolute Pressure [Pa] 1

Maximum Absolute Pressure [Pa] 5e+10

Minimum Temperature [K] 1

Maximum Temperature [K] 5000

Maximum Turb. Viscosity Ratio 100000

Run Information

Number of Machines 1

Number of Cores 8

Case Read 6.293 seconds

Data Read 1.916 seconds

Virtual Current Memory 1.41394 GB

Virtual Peak Memory 1.50068 GB

Memory Per M Cell 4.4266

Solution Status

Iterations: 502

Value Absolute Criteria Convergence Status

continuity 0.003948643 0.001 Not Converged

x-velocity 0.006865306 0.001 Not Converged

y-velocity 0.6301017 0.001 Not Converged

energy 0.002293302 0.001 Not Converged

nut 1.974068e-05 0.001 Converged

Plots

Residuals

Residuals

continuity
1.00e+0 x-velocity
y-velocity
energy
1.00e−1
nut
residuals

1.00e−2

1.00e−3

1.00e−4

0 100 200 300 400 500

iterations

Contours

contour-5
contour-4

contour-3
contour-2

contour-1
XY Plots

xy-plot-2

Static Pressure

2.00e+4 axis_mesh_
Static Pressure (Pa)

1.50e+4

1.00e+4

5.00e+3

0.00e+0

0.000 0.500 1.000 1.500 2.000

Position (m)
xy-plot-1

Velocity Magnitude

axis_mesh_

1.50e+2
Velocity Magnitude (m/s)

1.00e+2

5.00e+1

0.00e+0
0.000 0.500 1.000 1.500 2.000

Position (m)

xy-plot-3

Modified Turbulent Viscosity

axis_mesh_
8.00e−2

6.00e−2

4.00e−2

2.00e−2

0.00e+0

0.000 0.500 1.000 1.500 2.000

Position (m)