Introduction to the course and how to use course effectively
- Introduction to course
- How to use this course effectively and efficiently for learning CFD
Workshop 1: Laminar pipe flow - Making geometry in Ansys Design modeler
- Geometry of 3D Cylinder
- Split of cylinder into 5 Parts for Hexa mesh generation - Part I
- Split of cylinder into 5 Parts for Hexa mesh generation - Part 2
- Opening and Saving Workbench Files
- Opening spaceclaim or design modeller in ANSYS workbench
Workshop 1: Laminar pipe flow - Geometry in SpaceClaim (Not compulsory)
- Creating cylinder geometry using simple pull command
- Creating cylinder geometry using pull along path
- Pull along arbitrary path
- Creating cylinder geometry using blend command
Workshop 1: Laminar pipe flow -Hexa meshing in Workbench (Not necessary)
- Hexa meshing of circular cylinder
- Editing mesh of circular cylinder along length
- Mesh Optimization
- Mesh quality and statistics
Workshop 1: Ansys Meshing : Tetra + Prism mesh in workbench (Compulsory)
- Creating tetra and prism meshing
Workshop 1: Laminar pipe flow - Tetra-prism mesh in ICEMCFD (not necessary)
- Creating Tetra + Prism mesh for circular pipe in ICEMCFD
Workshop 1: Hexa meshing of cylinder in ICEMCFD (Not compulsory)
- Geometry generation of circular cylinder in ICEM CFD (Not compulsory)
- Creating parts from geometry
- Block creation and association of blocking to geometry
- O-Grid and editing of O-Grid
- Pre-mesh edge parameters and unstructured mesh conversion
- Solver, boundary conditions and mesh export
Workshop 1: Laminar pipe flow - Problem setup in ANSYS CFX Pre
- Introduction, opening CFX launcher and CFX Pre, and setting working directory
- Mesh Import, quick setup and mesh manipulation
- Creating expressions for density and viscosity
- Defining custom/ new material in CFX-Pre from the expressions
- Domain setting - Renaming a domain
- Turbulence and heat transfer model settings
- Domain setting - Reference pressure and other options
- Defining boundary conditions
- Solution initialization for steady state and transient cases
- Solver control
- Output control
- Writing solver input files
Workshop 1: Laminar pipe flow - Running case in CFX Solver
- Introduction
- Opening CFX solver, defining new run and loading definition file
- Solver options
- Solution Monitors
- Editing solver input file in CFX Solver and backup files
- Understanding convergence in CFX Solver
- Comparison of single precision and double precision solver on convergence
- Effect of Parallel processing on convergence in CFX Solver
- Auto time scale vs physical time scale
- Mass flow rate monitors
- Post processing Results
- Mesh statistics in CFX Solver
- Output file in CFX Solver
Workshop 1: Laminar pipe flow - CFD-Post
- Launching CFD Post and Loading results (*.res) file
- How to create a plan in CFD-Post
- Vector plots
- Contour plots
- Creating a line in CFD-Post
- Creation of XY plot, axial velocity profile and radial velocity profile
- Pressure gradient along pipe
- Exporting chart for Excel
- Plotting skin friction coefficient
- Comparing CFD and analytical results
Workshop 2 : NACA 0012 geometry and domain creation in design modeller
- Introduction and Airfoil nomenclature
- Creating coordinate file for naca 0012 airfoil
- Airfoil curve and surface generation
- Domain creation around airfoil
- Creation of fluid domain - Boolean operation (Subtract)
- Domain splitting for mapped meshing
- Boundary Conditions / Named Selection
- Correcting problems in airfoil coordinates important into DM
Workshop 3 : NACA 0012 Mapped or Hexa meshing in ANSYS Meshing
- Introduction, launching Ansys Meshing and physics and solver preferences
- Face meshing
- Edge sizing and mapped mesh generation for NACA 0012 Airfoil
- Mesh, Mesh Quality and Mesh Statistics
- Mesh export for Fluent and CFX
Workshop 4: NACA 0012 CFD using Ansys Fluent
- Introduction and basic calculations.
- Launching Fluent in stand-alone and workbench mode and loading mesh file
- Mesh quality and check
- Turbulence model selection and material properties
- Boundary conditions
- Reference values
- Solution methods and controls
- Report definition, report files and report monitors
- Residual plots
- Solution initialization
- Auto save Case and Data files
- Solution animation, solution running, and judging solution convergence
- Results and Discussion : Contour plots
- Velocity vectors , YPlus/Y Star plot, Cp plot
- Determination of drag and lift coefficient and comparison with experimental data
Workshop 5: NACA 0012 CFD using Ansys CFX
