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Workshop 08
Vortex Shedding
Dimitrios Sofialidis
Technical Manager, SimTec Ltd.
Mechanical Engineer, PhD
PRACE Autumn School 2013 - Industry Oriented HPC Simulations, September 21-27,
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia
14.5 Release
Introduction to ANSYS
Fluent
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I Introduction
Workshop Description:
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce good techniques for transient
flow modeling.
Learning Aims:
This workshop teaches skills for running Fluent for timedependant
(transient) simulations. Topics covered include:
Selecting a suitable timestep. Using CustomFieldFunctions (CFF).
Autosaving results during the simulation. Generating FastFourier Transforms (FFT).
Generating images during the simulation. Transient postprocessing in CFDPost.
Learning Objectives:
To show how to set up, run and postprocess a transient (time
dependant) simulation, as well as additional skills in using custom field
functions and FastFourierTransforms.
Cylinder D1 2 m (dia.)
Inlet Length D2 20 m = 10 D
Outlet Length D3 30 m = 15 D
Width D4 40 m = 20 D
Final domain
extent.
Solution Methods.
Select "QUICK" scheme for "Momentum" equation.
Steady state
solution is
asymmetric.
Introduction Model Setup Solving PostProcessing Summary
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Save Case&Data Files and Make Transient
Save the Case&Data files.
"File>Write Case&Data".
You can write case and data files with extension .gz the files will be compressed
automatically.
To obtain a more realistic solution to this problem we will solve it again, but in a
transient (time dependant) manner.
1) Saving the results data every (n) timesteps to disk. This will give a collection of files
that can be postprocessed at a later date, either using Fluent or CFDPost. However
having to load in a large number of files can be time consuming.
2) The alternative is to extract the required result (like an image from which to build an
animation) from Fluent during the solution process. Since all the data is in memory at
that instant, this is very quick to perform.
In this case we were interested in calculating flow around a cylinder, and assessing
the vortex shedding frequency. We checked with FFT analysis that predicted
frequency is in good agreement with results from literature.
Knowing your aims from the start will help you make sensible decisions of how
much of the part to simulate, the level of mesh refinement needed, and which
numerical schemes should be selected.