Tutorial : FLUENT - SIMULATING A MIXING ELBOW (2D)

This tutorial is further process from Tutorial : GAMBIT - MODELING A MIXING ELBOW . This tutorial illustrates the setup and solution of the two-dimensional turbulent fluid flow and heat transfer in a mixing junction. The mixing elbow configuration is encountered in piping systems in power plants and process industries.

It is often important to predict the flow field and temperature field in the neighborhood of the mixing region in order to properly design the location of inlet pipes.In this tutorial you will learn how to:

• Read an existing grid file into FLUENT
• Use mixed units to define the geometry and fluid properties
• Set material properties and boundary conditions for a turbulent forced convection problem
• Initiate the calculation with residual plotting
• Calculate a solution using the segregated solver
• Examine the flow and temperature fields using graphics
• Enable the second-order discretization scheme for improved prediction of temperature
• Adapt the grid based on the temperature gradient to further improve the
prediction of temperature

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- Tutorial : GAMBIT - MODELING A MIXING ELBOW (2D)

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