Fluent Introductory Training Course

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Fluent Introductory Training Course
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Orientation

• Agenda for Week
• 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.

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Agenda (Day 1)

• Introduction to Fluent Inc.
• Introduction to CFD Analysis
• Introductory Tutorial
• Solver Basics
• Lunch
• Boundary Conditions
• Turbulence Modelling
• Tutorial Session

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Agenda (Day 4)

• Solver Settings
• Heat Transfer and Thermal Boundary Conditions
• Your own Examples (or Tutorials)
• Lunch
• Your own Examples (or Tutorials)

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Support Engineers
Aero/ Auto
Chemical/ Process
Turbo/ Power
Sales
Support
Consulting

• 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
• ftp files to/from support
• ftp to ftp.fluent.co.uk
• log on as anonymous and use email address for
  password
• cd to incoming/xxx or outgoing/xxx and put files
  in binary mode.
• xxx support team identifier

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User Group Meetings

• 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 (Manchester NH, MI, CA)
• typ. Mid-June
• European Meetings
• typ. Mid-September through early October
• Asia-Pacific Meetings
• typ. Mid-October through early November

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FLUENT 6

• Fluent 6 Applications
• Internal and external automotive flows
• High speed aerodynamics
• Rocket flows
• Turbomachinery
• Reactor Vessels
• Cyclones
• Bubble Columns
• Mixing tanks
• Fluidized Beds
• Fluent 4.5
• Retained for Eulerian/Eulerian or
  Eulerian/Granular Heat Transfer

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.
Time history plot of wall shear rate-
Deformations cannot be neglected!
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POLYFLOW
Inverse Die Design Determines die geometry based
upon desired extruded shape.

• FEM solver for laminar, viscous flows for complex
  rheologies and free surface
• POLYFLOW Applications
• Extrusion, coextrusion, die design
• Blow molding, thermoforming
• Film casting, glass sheet forming/stretching,
  fiber drawing
• Chemical reactions, foaming
• Viscoelastic flows (memory effects)

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

• IcePak is 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 temperature distribution in a
fan-cooled computer cabinet.
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Airpak

• Simplifies the design and analysis of ventilation
  systems
• Accurate, quick, and easy-to-use design tool that
  empowers designers and professionals, without
  extensive backgrounds in computer applications,
  to utilize the powers of advanced CFD tools
• Optimize your designs or pinpoint problems based
  on accurate predictions of airflow patterns,
  thermal conditions, comfort conditions, and/or
  contamination control effectiveness

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MixSim

• MixSim is 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.

• 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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Pre-processor Gambit

• A single, integrated pre-processor for CFD
  analysis.
• Geometry creation
• Mesh generation
• Mesh quality examination
• Boundary zone assignment

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Pre-processor TGrid

• A pre-processor for tet/hybrid mesh generation.
• Useful when starting with triangular surface mesh.

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Documentation CDs

• Separate CD for each product (e.g., FLUENT 6,
  TGrid, etc.) containingall 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.

Fluent 5 CD Documentation html homepage
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Training Evaluation

• Evaluation forms are provided.
• Your feedback helps us improve our training
  material and methods.