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17.1.2. Initial Conditions for Time-Dependent Simulations.................................................45
17.2. Expressions.....................................................................................................................45
18. Solution-Dependent Expressions.......................................................................................46
19. EARSM Turbulence Models.................................................................................................47
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You will have the option to import mesh or geometry files from the following:
ABAQUS Input
ACIS
ACMO Input
ACP Input
ANSYS Result File
AutoCAD
Catia [V4]
Catia [V5]
Catia [V6]
CFX
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CFX Input
Creo Elements/Direct Modeling
Creo Parametric
DesignModeler
Fluent Compressed Input
Fluent Input
FMDB
GAMBIT
ICEM Input
IGES
Inventor
JTOpen
Mechanical APDL Input
NASTRAN Bulk Data
NX
Parasolid
Rhino
SketchUp
Solid Edge
With the beta option turned on, the faces involved will have blue and red hatching, respectively, with the
actual interface having blue and red hatching. Also, the bodies involved in the interface will be outlined in
blue and red, respectively. Below is an image of the beta implementation in a gear train simulation. You can
see the blue and red only hatched faces of the gears involved, the blue/red hatched area showing the parts
of the gears actually in contact, and the blue and red outline of the bodies involved.
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5. Drag a Fluent system from the Component Systems list in the Workbench Toolbox onto the
Project Schematic. You must use the Fluent component system; you cannot use the Fluent (with
Fluent Meshing) component system or a Fluent analysis system.
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7. Update the Meshing cell of the AIM Study in the Project Schematic.
8. Double-click the Setup cell to launch Fluent. You must run in parallel when you update for a part
mesh, either from the Workbench Properties view or from the Fluent startup dialog. You will see the
imported mesh in Fluent and can proceed with your Fluent analysis as you normally would.
If you created selection sets in AIM, you will see the sets in the Display panel in Fluent. If you name
the selection sets in AIM starting with any of the following boundary conditions, they will correctly
transfer to the appropriate boundary condition in Fluent. Anything else will transfer as a wall boundary
condition into Fluent.
axis
exhaust-fan
fan
fluid
inlet-vent
intake-fan
interface
interior
mass-flow-inlet
network
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Be aware that Skewness and Orthogonal Quality are different items in AIM and Fluent.
If you return to the AIM model to make changes after youve transferred it to Fluent, you can then
update the model in Fluent using the refresh feature to capture those changes from AIM.
7. Update the Meshing cell of the AIM Study in the Project Schematic.
8. Double-click the Setup cell to launch Fluent. You will see the imported mesh in Fluent and can proceed
with your Fluent analysis as you normally would.
If you created selection sets in AIM, you will see the sets in the Display panel in Fluent.
9. You can return to AIM to do additional work, such as to add inflation or other mesh controls.
10. Update the Study in AIM.
11. In the Project Schematic, you will need to update the Setup cell. Also, in Fluent, you will need to
update the project.
12. To connect a second geometry/mesh, you have two options:
a) Import a second geometry using the Project Schematic, transfer it to the Study cell, and repeat
steps 1-6 above. Because these bodies will be meshed separately, they will not be node-to-node
connected.
b) Import a second geometry in the Project Schematic and transfer it to the Data Import cell.
Then use Geometry Simplification properties in AIM to select the additional bodies. The regenerated
mesh will be node-to-node conformal between the connected parts.
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13. In the Project Schematic, you will see a second Meshing cell appear. Both Meshing cells in the
Study will have the same name. You can then drag this meshing cell onto the existing Setup cell in
your Fluent system, update, and continue your analysis.
Be aware that Skewness and Orthogonal Quality are different items in AIM and Fluent.
If you return to the AIM model to make changes after youve transferred it to Fluent, you can then
update the model in Fluent using the refresh feature to capture those changes from AIM.
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where,
= the shear stress component, which involves the shear rate dependent viscosity
. Several
algebraic relationships are available for describing the shear viscosity, such as: Constant viscosity,
Bird-Carreau law, Power law, Cross law, Modified Cross law, and Carreau-Yasuda law.
= the shear viscosity
= the first normal stress
= the normal viscosity
= the weighting coefficient
= the relaxation time function
= a viscoelastic variable that obeys a transport equation involving the relaxation time
. The equation is such that the solution
The normal viscosity
viscosity
, where
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Acceleration
Bolt Load
Force Intensity
Traction
Velocity
6.1. Acceleration
An acceleration constraint specifies that a portion of the model accelerates with an acceleration relative to
a stationary reference frame. You can define acceleration by directional components, as normal to a face,
or by magnitude and direction.
When defining an acceleration by directional components, you can define a local reference frame or select
the global reference frame. When defining acceleration as normal to a face, the acceleration direction is fixed
by the selected face. When you define acceleration by magnitude and direction, you specify the direction.
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6.3. Traction
Traction is a vector-based boundary condition which can be applied to faces by defining a magnitude and
direction or by defining one to three components in a selected reference frame. This is a more general version
of Pressure boundary condition which can be applied in any direction. This boundary condition has units of
Pressure (Force/Area).
6.4. Velocity
A velocity constraint specifies that a portion of the model moves with a velocity relative to its reference
frame. You can define a velocity on a vector defined by directional components, normal to a face, or by
magnitude and direction.
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Specify the function or expression you want to evaluate in the Results > Calculated Value panel.
View the evaluated result of your calculated value in the graphics window at the specified location.
Click and drag the value anywhere in the graphics window as needed.
Click the value in the graphics window to access the Calculated Value property panel where you
can modify your settings if needed.
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A side-by-side comparison of a temperature contour display demonstrating the AIM default behavior (left)
and the beta feature behavior (right).
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1. In the Study panel, click on the Magnetics simulation process template to open the Magnetics
Template panel.
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3. Click Create Simulation Process, which opens a File Open dialog to select a geometry file.
4. Locate and open the geometry file. The geometry used in this example is shown below.
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then choose...
For Frequency for adaptive meshing, you can accept the default Program controlled to
use the maximum frequency in the sweep range for computing the adaptive meshing solution;
or select User defined, which enables you to specify any frequency in the sweep range.
6. Assign materials to the model objects. In the example, Vacuum is assigned to the rectangular box
region surrounding the induction furnace; inox (stainless steel)is assigned to the hollow cooling
channels; fresh water is assigned to the volumes filling the cooling channels; Copper is assigned
to the coils; and glass is assigned to the crucible.
The Isotropic Electrical Conductivity, Isotropic Relative Permeability, Isotropic Relative
Permittivity, and Isotropic Magnetic Loss Tangent material property values can be defined as
frequency-dependent using tables, where the property is tabulated as a function of frequency.
a)
With the body selection filter enabled (
), click on the body in your model. Shift-click to select
multiple objects. In the image below, the crucible has been selected.
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c) Right-click and select Add > Electromagnetic Conditions > Terminal to assign the condition.
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d) In the Terminal panel, enter the Number of conductors being modeled. For the example, each
coil consists of 1 (one) conductor.
Note: The number of conductors must be set to 1 if the design is to be used with thermal coupling
to represent a solid conductor. Losses for a stranded conductor cannot be computed directly.
Checking Reverse polarity, reverses the direction of current flow (indicated by the arrow) in the
coil winding. Clicking Show conduction path shows the conduction path of this terminal on the
model.
Note: A conduction path must be calculated before it can be shown. If the design is not ready to
be solved, or the conduction path is not calculated, the Show conduction path button is disabled
(greyed out).
e) Repeat the above steps for each of the remaining coils.
10. Add a Winding electromagnetic condition to include one or more terminals on one or multiple
conduction paths.
A Winding is not assignable to geometry objects. It is recommended that terminals on the same
conduction path be included in the same winding.
a) Right-click on any object in the model and select Add > Electromagnetic Conditions > Winding
to assign the condition.
b) In the Winding panel, select the terminal(s) to be included (all seven in the example).
c) If two or more terminals are selected, check Connected in parallel if the terminals are connected
in parallel. If Connected in parallel is checked, the Number of branches option is available
with the default value 1. This setting is not selected in this example.
d) Specify the Operating current magnitude for the winding.
e) Specify the Phase angle for the current in the winding.
When a solid material used to form the core of devices such as inductors and transformers is subjected to
a changing magnetic field, such as that resulting from a sinusoidal current flowing through the devices
winding(s), some of the power that would otherwise be transferred through the device is dissipated as heat.
Core loss computations are used to calculate these losses for electromagnetics frequency response designs.
A program-controlled Core Loss computation is automatically included for frequency response (eddy current)
designs.
11. In the Physics panel, under Physics Options, click on Core Loss Computation to open its panel
in which you can select an option for how core loss computation is applied. The default is Program
controlled, which automatically selects all solid objects in the design whose material properties include
core loss, or you can explicitly choose from the following:
User defined, which enables you to select the objects you want to include in the core loss
computation.
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The electromagnetics solver solution output for frequency response magnetics simulations supports both
Contour and Vector plots.
27. For Contour plots, in the Results panel, select Add > Contour.
a) Select a face, body or plane as the Location of the Contour to be plotted.
b) In the Variable drop-down list, select the desired variable to be plotted.
c) Select a Frequency from the drop-down menu. Results for the selected variable at the chosen
frequency and Phase angle will be plotted.
d) Because the computed field values are complex numbers, the Phase angle you specify determines
the particular time or point in the period of the chosen Frequency used to create the plot.
e) Click Evaluate to compute the result.
The first image below shows Current Density Magnitude J plotted for the example glass crucible.
The second image shows the Ohmic Loss (heat loss) in the crucible.
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Note: Heat generation data output from a frequency response electromagnetics problem solution
can also be coupled to a thermal simulation.
The maximum and minimum calculated values are displayed in the Summary section, such as the
one for Ohmic Loss shown below.
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28. For Vector plots, in the Results panel, select Add > Vector.
a) Select a face, body or plane as the Location of the Vector to be plotted.
b) Select a Frequency from the drop-down menu. Results for the selected variable at the chosen
frequency and Phase angle will be plotted.
c) Because the computed field values are complex numbers, the Phase angle you specify determines
the particular time or point in the period of the chosen Frequency used to create the plot.
d) Click Evaluate to compute the result.
The images below show the Current Density J vector plot for the example coils, and the Magnetic
Flux Density B vector plot for the crucible.
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The maximum and minimum calculated values of vector magnitude are displayed in the Summary
section, such as the one shown below.
(Face Locations)
(Body Locations)
Electromagnetics
(Body Locations)
SS**, FR
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Description
Error tolerance
Safety factor
The upper and lower limits for the time step size.
3. Under Simulation Termination, you can end the calculation by either specifying an End time or
by entering the Number of time steps.
4. Under Iteration Control, enter the Maximum/Minimum number of iterations per time step
you would like the solver to run through. The maximum number of iterations per time step may not
always be reached if the residual target level is achieved first.
5.
In the Physics panel, click Solve Physics (
) to update the Physics Solution task and generate a
solution.
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Details
2. Choose between Iterative and Non iterative for the Time Advancement Method.
Option
Details
Iterative (default)
Non iterative
17.2. Expressions
For steady state simulations, a standard feature of ANSYS AIM is to allow you to set Position dependent
expressions for both boundary and initial conditions in a fluid physics task. The same is true for transient
simulations, in which case expressions can also be a function of Time and TimeStep. These variables may
also be used when defining initial conditions, and the solver will substitute a zero value for them.
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Solution-Dependent Expressions
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> Tools > Options > Appearance menu. You will need to scroll
In addition to the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models that are available under
Physics Options > Turbulence Model > RANS Model, you also have access to the following turbulence
models:
EARSM Rumsey Gatski k-omega BSL
EARSM Wallin Johansson k-omega BSL
The EARSM models are a slightly less robust extension of the k-omega BSL model and are applicable to
secondary flows, such as corner flows.
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