FlowLab

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FlowLabA Virtual Fluids Laboratory

• CACHE / Fluent Presentation
• for AIChE Annual Meeting

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Presentation Outline

• Fluents interactions with universities
• CFD and undergraduate engineering education
• Overview of Fluent/FlowLab
• FlowLab templates
• University collaborations
• FlowLab availability

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Fluent University Program

• FLUENT, FIDAP, POLYFLOW at over 600 universities
  worldwide
• Fluent views universities as important strategic
  partners
• Advanced RD
• physics, computational methods technology
• consortia, funded research
• Expanded software capability
• industry funded
• technology transfer
• Applied CFD
• leading edge applications, validations
• Students CFD practitioners
• Use of CFD in the curriculum

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CFD Undergraduate Education

• CFD is a critical technology for industry
• Improve design
• Cut costs
• Understand equipment performance
• CFD in academia today
• Student projects
• Funded research
• Growing need to provide CFD exposure to
  undergraduate engineering students
• Difficult to deploy CFD tools in classroom

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Fluent/FlowLab Deploy CFD in the Classroom

• Built on top of GAMBIT and FLUENT
• Based on pre-defined, parameterized fluid
  mechanics and heat transfer problems
• Eliminates long learning curve
• Validated exercises tied to traditional
  thermal/fluids curriculum
• Customized or extended for individual instructor
  needs
• Targeted at undergraduate or MS level courses in
  engineering science
• Homework exercises
• Augment existing lectures

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FlowLab 1.1 Sudden Expansion Exercise User
Interface Summary
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FlowLab 1.1 Orifice Flow Exercise Geometry
Creation Axisymmetric Geometry
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FlowLab 1.1 Orifice Flow Exercise Boundary
Conditions and Material Properties
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FlowLab 1.1 Orifice Flow Exercise Meshing
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FlowLab 1.1 Orifice Flow Exercise Solving Flow
Problem
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FlowLab 1.1 Orifice Flow Exercise Post-Processing
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FlowLab 1.1 Orifice Flow Exercise Reports
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Time Dependent Analysis
New Feature Introduced in October, 2003
FlowLab showing contours of velocity for the
cylinder exercise at Re83
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Particle Tracking
New Feature Introduced in October, 2003
FlowLab showing streamline bands overlaid with
particles colored by velocity magnitude
introduced downstream of the orifice for the
orifice exercise at Re40,000
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Benefits of FlowLab

• Use visualization to reinforce fundamental fluid
  dynamics concepts
• Expand lab experience - easily and at low cost
• Stimulate interest in fluid mechanics
• Expose students to new job skills

Exploration of CFD principles
Fundamental fluids examples
Real-world applications
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FlowLab Exercises

• Developed in collaboration with university
  professors
• FlowLab template library
• http//flowlab.fluent.com/exercise/index.htm
• Free and web-accessible to FlowLab users
• Templates available include
• Developing Flow and Heat Transfer in a Pipe
• Fully Developed Pipe Flow
• Flow Around a Cylinder
• Sudden Expansion in a Pipe
• Lift/Drag on an Airfoil
• Flow Over a Heated Plate
• Heat Conduction
• Flow Through an Orifice

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FlowLab ExerciseCoronary Artery
TEMPLATE DEVELOPER Professor Cecile
Legallais Universite de Technologie de
Compiegne France
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FlowLab ExerciseTaylor-Couette Flow
TEMPLATE DEVELOPER Dr. Yanhui Hu and Dr. Rodney
Fox Iowa State University USA
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FlowLab ExerciseCenter Gated Disk
TEMPLATE DEVELOPER Dr. Steven Parks Dr.
Charles Petty Michigan State University USA
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FlowLab Collaborators

• NSF Curriculum Development Project
• University of Iowa, Iowa State, Cornell, Howard
• Course Companion Materials
• John Cimbala, Penn State University
• Internet Course on Multiphase Transport Phenomena
• Charles Petty Steve Parks Michigan State
• Univ. of Tulsa, Univ. of Akron
• CACHE Corporation
• ASEE
• 2002 ASEE Summer School for Chemical Engineering
  Faculty
• Jennifer Sinclair Kim Hayden Purdue

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Snapshot of FlowLab Users

• U. S. Military Academy
• University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• Clarkson University
• University of Oklahoma
• Case Western Reserve University
• Colorado State University
• Wayne State University
• University of Kansas
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• University of Nevada
• West Virginia University
• University of Delaware
• University of Maryland
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• Virginia Military Institute
• Purdue University
• Howard University
• Brigham Young University

• University of Yucatan
• Huazhong University of Science and Technology
• Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de
  Monterrey
• FEI-Fundacao Educacional Inaciana Pe. Sabolia De
  Mederios
• FH Trier
• Montanuniversität Leoben
• Georg-Simon-Ohm Fachhochschule Nürnberg
• Silesian Technical University
• Institut Superieur Meurice Ceria
• Technological Education Institute of Crete
• NED University of Engineering and Technology
• Politechnika Wroclawska
• Riydah College of Technology,
• Politechnika Wroclawska
• University of Patras
• Univeristy of Northumbria
• Universiteit Gent
• University of Glasgow
• CAE Risalpur

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Platform Support

• Support for Windows Operating Systems
• Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Support for Redhat Linux and compatible operating
  systems
• Redhat Linux versions 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0

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Obtaining FlowLab

• Department license
• Allows a class direct access to the software
• 25 seats
• 1,000 / year
• Individual license
• Allows a professor to perform classroom
  demonstrations
• 1 seat
• 200 / year
• Trial license
• A six-month free evaluation will be provided upon
  request

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Questions

• Contact Information
• Website http//flowlab.fluent.com
• E-mail Inquiry flowlab_at_fluent.com
• Phone [phone] ext. 308

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