Tank Flushing
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Workshop Description:
In this workshop, you will model the filling and emptying of a water tank. The
simulation will be multiphase (volume of fluid) and transient (time dependent)
Learning Aims:
This workshop aims to teach skills in running multiphase simulations in Fluent. The
entire simulation approach is covered, including:
Setting up a 2-phase simulation
Using patch tools to control initialisation
Preparing a transient animation
Using Solution Controls to modify the problem definition (turn off the valve)
Learning Objectives:
This workshop teaches skills in the use of multiphase modelling, transient flow
modelling, generating images on-the-fly and preparing animations
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Orientate the view
Inlet
Outlet
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center pane)
Edit the outlet boundary
For the turbulent quantities, select
Intensity and Hydraulic Diameter, with
TI of 5% and HD of 12.5 cm
Click OK
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This will instruct the solver to fill the tank with air.
The next step is to partially fill the tank with water,
resulting in the proper initial condition..
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Outline of region
adaption register
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Switch to Phases
Volume Fraction air
choose sym1 at Surface list
Filled
Display
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In multiphase
problems, displaying
contours of volume
fraction to confirm the
correct initial
condition before
beginning to iterate is
highly recommended.
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Choose Colormap
Set Colormap size to 10
Choose the gray Scheme
Apply
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Monitors
Residuals
Choose Window 1 for Plot
Click OK
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This is a snapshot of the graphics windows after the completion of the first 53 time steps.
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Generate Animation
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The animation can be played using most of the standard multimedia
Players like Windows Media Player
The Animation Playback tool can also be used to generate a
sequence of picture frames
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Further work
There are many ways the simulation in this tutorial could be extended, for
instance reloading the saved initial case and data files and then try:
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Wrap-up
This workshop has shown the basic steps that are applied in VOF simulations:
Defining Phases and Phase Interaction
Setting boundary conditions per Phase and Solver Settings
Running a transient simulation whilst writing intermediate data files and animation data
Post-processing the results
One of the important things to remember in your own work is, before even starting the
ANSYS software, is to think WHY you are performing the simulation:
What information are you looking for
What do you know about the inlet conditions
In this case we were interested in how long it would take to completely empty the tank.
Knowing your aims from the start will help you make sensible decisions of how much of
the part to simulate, the level of mesh refinement needed, and which numerical schemes
should be selected.
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