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Application Tutorial 7.

2a:
Sinusoidal Velocity Profile

Fundamentals and Application of CFD

Master’s
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Introduction
The goal of this tutorial is to familiarize the user with all the stages required for creating an UDF using the
DEFINE_PROFILE macro in Ansys Fluent.
• For this tutorial, we choose a simple geometry: axisymmetric pipeline.
Wall

Outlet
Inlet

axis

• The velocity inlet boundary condition is to be modelled with a sinosoidal velocity profile given by the
following equation:

𝑼 = 𝑼𝟎 + 𝐀 × sin 𝝎𝒕

with U0 = 20 m/s, A = 5 m/s, ω = 10 rad/s


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UDF Programming Procedure
Initial Procedure
1. Open your text editor and load “sinusoide_start.c”. This is a draft version of the UDF.
2. Complete/write the UDF to represent the unsteady profile shown in the AC07.2:
• You will need to loop over the boundary condition faces
• You will need to use the macro F_PROFILE
• You will need a time macro… Please check: help/flu_udf/flu_udf_RPVariables.html
NOTE:If you have any problem you could use the file “sinusoide_solution.c”

3. Save the UDF as “sinusoide.c”

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UDF Setup
After finishing the UDF:
1. Open Fluent 2D
2. File > Read > Case
• Select file pipe.msh
3. Display Mesh
• Mesh → Display
4. Interpret the UDF
• User-Defined > Functions > Interpret
5. Browse created file
• Select sinusoide.c
• Select Display Assembly Listing (optionally)
• Select Use Contributed CPP (optionally)
6. Interpret

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Case setup
Complete the case setup
1. In General
– Select 2D axisymmetric
– Select transient
2. In Materials, retain air as fluid
3. In Boundary Conditions
– Select entree as Inlet
– Set Velocity Magnitude as udf sinusoidal_inlet
4. Set convergence monitors
5. Initialize calculation
6. Iteration
– Set timestep = 0.04s for 50 time steps
• Run Calculation
– Check the transient behaviour at the outlet (sortie).

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Case setup
Create a new Surface Monitor to obtain the inlet (entree)
behaviour.
Initialize Calculation.
Run Calculation.

Inlet Outlet

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