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Fluent Inc.

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Orientation

Agenda for Week:

Monday
Solver-1

Tuesday
Solver-2

Wednesday
Gambit-1

Thursday
Gambit-2

Friday
1:1 Consult

Facilities

Training rooms, Lunch rooms, and Bathrooms Problem Setup

Training

Creating the model: geometry and mesh generation Using the Solver: setup and execution

Establish contact with support staff Begin your own CFD project!

We recommend doing all Gambit and relevant Fluent tutorials first.

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Detailed Agenda (Day 1)

8:00-8:30 8:30-9:00 9:00-9:30 9:30-11:15 11:15-12:00 12:00-1:00 1:00-2:00 2:00-4:00 4:00-5:00 Introduction to Fluent Inc. Introduction to CFD Analysis Demonstration: Overview of the CFD Process Tutorial Session I Solver Basics Lunch Boundary Conditions Tutorial Session II Turbulence Modeling

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Detailed Agenda (Day 2)

8:00-9:00 9:00-10:30 10:30-11:15 11:15-12:00 12:00-1:00 1:00-2:00 2:00-3:30 3:30-5:00 Solver Settings Tutorial Session III Heat Transfer and Thermal Boundary Conditions User Defined Functions (Optional) Lunch Tutorial Session IV: Post-processing Multiphase Modeling (Optional) Combustion Modeling (Optional)

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About Fluent: History

Creare Inc.
1961 1983 Creare Inc.
CFD Group

Creare Inc.

1988

Fluent Inc.
1995
Aavid Thermal Technologies Aavid Thermal Technologies

1964
Aavid Thermal Technologies

Fluent Inc. 1996

Incorporating FDI and POLYFLOW

Fluent Inc.

Fluent now has more than 10 offices located in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.A.
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Organization
Aero Auto Material Chemical Power HVAC

Sales

Support

Consulting

Engineers and staff are assigned to industry teams. Each team has their own sales, support, and consulting groups.

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Fluent Support Online

User Services Center

Access through fluent.com

must be registered user Release Information Download Updates Documentation Supported Platforms Defects/Workarounds Presentations Training

Services

ftping files to support

ftp to ftp.fluent.com log on as ftp and use email address for password cd to incoming/xxx and put appropriate support files (binary).

xxx = support engineer identifier

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Advanced Training on CD-ROM

Advanced training available on CD-ROM Can be purchased online

Turbulence Modeling User Defined Functions Combustion Multiphase

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User Group Meetings

Attend the annual UGM and:

meet with the users and staff of Fluent attend short-courses learn of other Fluent applications presented by users provide input to future development of software USA (Danvers MA, MI, CA)

Worldwide User Group Meetings:

typ. Mid-June typ. Mid-September through early October typ. Mid-October through early November
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European Meetings

Asia-Pacific Meetings

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Fluent CFD Product Line

Fluent Inc. offers several different CFD software packages.

Each package differs in the solver technology used and the industrial applications on which they are focused.

CFD Package
FLUENT 4.5/5 FIDAP

Description
FVM based solver suitable for incompressible/compressible and laminar/turbulent flows that include chemical reactions, multiple phases, and heat transfer. FEM based solver suitable for incompressible laminar/turbulent flows involving Newtonian/non-Newtonian fluids, free surfaces and Fluid-structure interaction. FEM based solver suitable for laminar, viscous flows involving complex rheologies and free surfaces. Specialized GUI that allows quick and easy set-up of mixing tank simulations. Specialized GUI that allows quick and easy set-up of electronics cooling simulations.
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POLYFLOW MixSim IcePak

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FLUENT 4.5 and FLUENT 5

Fluent 5 Applications:

Internal and external automotive flows High speed aerodynamics Rocket flows Turbomachinery Reactor Vessels

Surface pressure distribution in an automotive engine cooling jacket.

Fluent 4.5 Applications:

Cyclones Bubble Columns Mixing tanks Fluidized Beds

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Instantaneous solids concentration in a riser indicating uniform distribution of catalyst at the riser head.

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FIDAP

FIDAP Applications:

Example: Pulsatile flow in an artery with a compliant vein graft.

Polymer processing: nonNewtonian flow in extrusion dies Thin film coating flows Biomedical: oxygenators, blood pumps, deforming arteries Semiconductor crystal growth Other metal, glass, and chemical processing problems
initial mesh

Velocity contour plot

deforming artery rigid artery

u=u(t), sinusoidal inlet velocity rigid wall compliant wall rigid wall

Time history plot of wall shear rateDeformations cannot be neglected!

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POLYFLOW

POLYFLOW Applications:

Extrusion, coextrusion, die design Blow molding, thermoforming Film casting, glass sheet forming/stretching, fiber drawing Chemical reactions, foaming Viscoelastic flows (memory effects)

Inverse Die Design: Determines die geometry based upon desired extruded shape.

Requested part shape and calculated die lip shape for a rubber car door seal.

Blow molding simulation of a gas tank using the membrane element.

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IcePak

IcePak is focused on electronics

cooling design:

Cooling airflow, heat conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer

The user interface and automatic meshing are tailored for applications such as:

Cabinet design Fan placement Board-level design Heat sink evaluation

Flow pathlines and temperature distribution in a fan-cooled computer cabinet.

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MixSim

MixSim is a specialized user interface that allows quick and easy set-up

of mixing tank simulations. The tank size, bottom shape, baffle configuration, number and type of impellers, etc. are specified directly. The mesh and complete problem definition are then automatically created. Other features include:

Impeller libraries from leading equipment manufacturers Transient sliding mesh, steady-state multiple reference frame models Non-Newtonian rheology

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Pre-processor: Gambit

A single, integrated pre-processor for CFD analysis.

Geometry creation Mesh generation Mesh quality examination Boundary zone assignment

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Pre-processor: TGrid

A pre-processor for tet/hybrid mesh generation. Useful when starting with triangular surface mesh.

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Documentation CDs

Separate CD for each product (e.g., FLUENT 5, TGrid, etc.) containing all the manuals for that product. Three formats available:

HTML

for general viewing, searching, limited printing for high quality printing of one or many pages
Fluent 5 CD Documentation html homepage

Adobe Acrobat PDF

Adobe PostScript

for high quality printing of one or many pages

A script is included which can (optionally) install the documentation.

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Evaluation Forms

Evaluation forms are provided in your folder. Your feedback helps us improve our training material and methods.

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