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This document provides specifications for simulating forced convection in a pipe using ANSYS Fluent software. It describes the pipe geometry, material properties, boundary conditions including inlet velocity and temperature and heated wall section, and experimental data for comparison. The simulation aims to model forced convection experiments and obtain velocity, temperature, pressure and density distributions for validation against experimental results.

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This document provides specifications for simulating forced convection in a pipe using ANSYS Fluent software. It describes the pipe geometry, material properties, boundary conditions including inlet velocity and temperature and heated wall section, and experimental data for comparison. The simulation aims to model forced convection experiments and obtain velocity, temperature, pressure and density distributions for validation against experimental results.

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FLUENT - Forced Convection - Problem Specification


Added by Yong Sheng Khoo , last edited by Rajesh Bhaskaran on Sep 26, 2011 12:17

Author: Rajesh Bhaskaran & Yong Sheng Khoo, Cornell University

Problem Specification
1. Pre-Analysis & Start-Up
2. Geometry
3. Mesh
4. Setup (Physics)
5. Solution
6. Results
7. Verification & Validation
Exercises

Problem Specification

This tutorial shows you how to simulate forced convection in a pipe using ANSYS FLUENT 12.
The simulation corresponds to the forced convection experiment in MAE 4272 at Cornell
University. The diagram shows a pipe with a heated section in the middle where constant heat flux
is added at the wall. The ambient air is flowing into the pipe from the left with a uniform velocity.
We'll use FLUENT to solve the relevant boundary-value problem and obtain the velocity,

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temperature, pressure and density distribution in the pipe. Inputs necessary for the simulation,
such as the velocity at the pipe inlet and heat flux added at the wall, are obtained from one
particular experimental run. Results from the simulation will be compared with corresponding
experimental values. Background information is provided in this presentation from MAE
4272 at Cornell University. Your fingers might be itching to launch FLUENT and get busy with
the mouse and keyboard. Nevertheless, you will be well-served by reviewing the presentation
before proceeding. That way, you will be better able to apply the solution procedure to new
problems.

Note to Cornell students enrolled in MAE 4272, Fall 2011: It is best to run FLUENT in the
ACCEL lab in the Engineering Library. The CIT labs in B7 Upson and 318 Phillips also have
FLUENT. However, there is a video card incompatibility on the CIT computers that appears in the
post-processing step. As a result, the temperature contours can look weird. Everything else works
fine in the CIT labs. So, alternately, you can go through the simulation in the CIT labs, save your
files and load them on to the ACCEL computers to obtain the correct temperature contours.

Simulation Inputs Obtained from Experiment

The following inputs are necessary to specify the domain, boundary conditions and material
properties for the Boundary Value Problem (BVP) that we'll solve using FLUENT. The relevant
BVP is discussed in presentation mentioned above.

Pipe Geometry:
Circular cross-section
Pipe radius = 2.94e-2 m
Pipe length = 6.045 m

Material Properties:
Coeff. of viscosity = 1.787e-5 kg/(m s)
Cp = 1005 J/(kg K)
Thermal conductivity = 0.0266 W/(m K)
Molecular weight = 28.97 g/mole

Inlet:
• u = 25.05 m/s
• v = 0 m/s
• T = 298.15 K
• k = 0.09 m2/s2; epsilon = 16 m2/s3 (These are not measured and are rough guess values)

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Outlet:
• Pressure = 97225.9 Pa

Wall:
• Heating between x = 1.83 m and x = 4.27 m
• Wall heat flux = 3473.9 W/m2
• Wall roughness: 0 (assume smooth)
• Wall thickness: 0 (assume negligible)

Ambient conditions:
• Ambient pressure = 98338.2 Pa

Experimental Data for Comparison with Simulation Results

Links are provided later to download these .csv files and make comparisons with corresponding
simulation results.

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