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Orientation

Agenda for Week:

Facilities

Training rooms, Lunch rooms, and Bathrooms

Training

Problem Setup

Creating the model: geometry and mesh generation

Using the Solver: setup and execution

Establish contact with support staff

Begin your own CFD project!

We recommend doing all Gambit and relevant Fluent tutorials first.

Monday

Solver-1

Tuesday

Solver-2

Wednesday

Gambit-1

Thursday

Gambit-2

Friday

1:1 Consult


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Detailed Agenda (Day 1)

8:00-8:30 Introduction to Fluent Inc.

8:30-9:00 Introduction toCFD Analysis

9:00-9:30 Demonstration: Overview of the CFD Process

9:30-11:15 Tutorial Session I11:15-12:00 Solver Basics

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Boundary Conditions

2:00-4:00 Tutorial Session II

4:00-5:00 Turbulence Modeling


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Detailed Agenda (Day 2)

8:00-9:00 Solver Settings

9:00-10:30 Tutorial Session III

10:30-11:15 Heat Transfer and Thermal Boundary Conditions

11:15-12:00 User Defined Functions (Optional)12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Tutorial Session IV: Post-processing

2:00-3:30 Multiphase Modeling (Optional)

3:30-5:00 Combustion Modeling (Optional)


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About Fluent: History

Creare Inc.Creare Inc.

CFD GroupCreare Inc.

Fluent Inc.

Aavid ThermalTechnologies

Aavid Thermal

Technologies

Fluent Inc.

Aavid ThermalTechnologies

Fluent Inc.Incorporating

FDI and

POLYFLOW

1961

1983

1988

19951964

1996

Fluent now has more than 10 offices located in Europe, Asia, and

the U.S.A.


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Organization

Aero

Sales Support Consulting

Auto Material Chemical Power HVAC

Engineers and staff are assigned to industry teams.

Each team has their own sales, support, and consulting groups.


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Fluent Support Online

User Services Center Access through fluent.com

must be registered user

Services

Release Information

Download Updates Documentation

Supported Platforms

Defects/Workarounds

Presentations

Training ftping files to support

ftp to ftp.fluent.com

log on as ftp and use email address for password

cd to incoming/xxx and put appropriate support files (binary).

xxx= support engineer identifier


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Advanced Training on CD-ROM

Advanced training available on

CD-ROM

Can be purchased online

Turbulence Modeling

User Defined Functions Combustion

Multiphase


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Attend the annual UGM and:

meet with the users and staff of

Fluent

attend short-courses

learn of other Fluent applications

presented by users

provide input to future development

of software

Worldwide User Group Meetings:

USA (Danvers MA, MI, CA)

typ. Mid-June

European Meetings

typ. Mid-September through early October

Asia-Pacific Meetings

typ. Mid-October through early November

User Group Meetings


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Fluent CFD Product Line

Fluent Inc. offers several different CFD software packages.

Each package differs in the solver technology used and the industrial

applications on which they are focused.

CFD Package Description

FLUENT 4.5/5 FVM based solver suitable for incompressible/compressible and

laminar/turbulent flows that include chemical reactions, multiple

phases, and heat transfer.

FIDAP FEM based solver suitable for incompressible laminar/turbulent

flows involving Newtonian/non-Newtonian fluids, free surfaces

and Fluid-structure interaction.

POLYFLOW FEM based solver suitable for laminar, viscous flows involving

complex rheologies and free surfaces.

MixSim Specialized GUI that allows quick and easy set-up of mixing tank

simulations.

IcePak Specialized GUI that allows quick and easy set-up of electronics

cooling simulations.


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FLUENT4.5and FLUENT 5

Fluent 5 Applications:

Internal and external

automotive flows

High speed aerodynamics

Rocket flows

Turbomachinery

Reactor Vessels

Fluent 4.5 Applications:

Cyclones

Bubble Columns

Mixing tanks

Fluidized Beds

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 Applications:

Polymer processing: non-

Newtonian flow in extrusion dies

Thin film coating flows

Biomedical: oxygenators, blood

pumps, deforming arteries

Semiconductor crystal growth

Other metal, glass, and chemical

processing problems

Example: Pulsatile flow in an artery

with a compliant vein graft.

u=u(t),

sinusoidal

inlet velocity

rigid

wall

rigid

wall

compliant

wall

initial mesh

rigid artery

deforming artery

Time history plot of wall shear rate-

Deformations cannot be neglected!

Velocity contour plot


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POLYFLOW

POLYFLOW Applications:

Extrusion, coextrusion, die

design

Blow molding,

thermoforming Film casting, glass sheet

forming/stretching, fiber

drawing

Chemical reactions,

foaming

Viscoelastic flows

(memory effects)

Inverse Die Design:

Determines die geometry

based upon desired

extruded shape.

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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IcePak

IcePakis focused on electronics

cooling design:

Cooling airflow, heat

conduction, convection and

radiation heat transfer

The user interface and automatic

meshing are tailored for

applications such as:

Cabinet design

Fan placement

Board-level design

Heat sink evaluation

Flow pathlines and temperaturedistribution in a fan-cooled computer

cabinet.


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MixSimis 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.

MixSim

Other features include:

Impeller libraries from leading equipment

manufacturers

Transient sliding mesh, steady-state multiple

reference frame models

Non-Newtonian rheology


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A single, integrated

pre-processor for

CFD analysis.

Geometry

creation

Mesh generation

Mesh quality

examination

Boundary zone

assignment

Pre-processor:Gambit


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A pre-processor for

tet/hybrid mesh

generation.

Useful when

starting withtriangular surface

mesh.

Pre-processor:TGrid


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Separate CD for each product (e.g.,

FLUENT 5, TGrid, etc.) containing

all the manuals for that product.

Three formats available:

HTML for general viewing, searching,

limited printing

Adobe Acrobat PDF

for high quality printing of one

or many pages

Adobe PostScript

for high quality printing of one or many pages

A script is included which can (optionally) install the documentation.

Documentation CDs

Fluent 5 CD Documentation html homepage


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Evaluation Forms

Evaluation forms

are provided in

your folder.

Your feedback

helps us improveour training

material and

methods.

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