ANSYS Fluent Tutorial Part 1 - Clarkson University

1 1 ANSYS Fluent Tutorial Part 1 This Tutorial introduces you to the ANSYS workbench and Fluent environments. Upon completing this Tutorial you will understand: ANSYS workbench environment o Create a new project, create geometry, mesh the domain, identify and name boundary conditions, grid adaptation Flow simulation in Fluent o Export mesh to Fluent , apply boundary conditions, iterate toward the solution, examine the flow fields, obtain numerical results, examine and validate the results Project 1 description: Simulate fluid flow through a rectangular channel shown below. Figure Consider air flowing through a rectangular channel of 2cm height and 10cm length.

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