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Introduction to
ANSYS FLUENT
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Goals
The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the user to good
techniques for accurately modelling flow in high speed external
aerodynamic applications.
Transonic flow will be modelled over a NACA 0012 airfoil for which
experimental data has been published, so that a comparison can be
made.
The flow to be considered is compressible and turbulent.
The solver used is the density based implicit solver, which gives
good results for high speed compressible flows.
The tutorial is carried out using ANSYS FLUENT and CFD Post from
within Workbench, but it could also be completed in standalone
mode.
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Save As
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Shortly we will be importing the mesh file into our Fluent simulation.
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Double-Click
or Drag into your workspace
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The cell wall distance computed by the solver, and needed for the
turbulence model, has been checked.
Proceed with this mesh and set up the case.
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Click Change/Create
Close the materials panel.
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There is nothing else to assign to the fluid cell zone for this case
Other tabs are enabled when the corresponding options are selected
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where
T0 total temperatur e 311 K
T static temperatur e
1.4 for air
M Mach number 0.7
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= 1m
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Initialize
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Any potential problems or reminders associated with the case setup will
be raised in the case check panel.
In this case, in the solver tab, there is a recommendation to check the
reference values for the force monitors.
Since we have already set these we can ignore this reminder.
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Run Calculation
Set three graphics windows
For the residual, lift and drag monitors
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Run Calculation
After 1000 iterations the calculation has converged.
Note that the CFL has been steadily ramped up during the calculation by the
solution steering algorithm. This can be seen in the CFL value displayed and
the effect on the residuals is also evident.
The residuals have converged to low values and the drag and lift
monitors are no longer changing.
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File > Save Project (save the project from the FLUENT file menu)
File > Close FLUENT
Additional post-processing will now be performed in CFD Post.
Return to the Workbench Project window.
Click on Refresh Project and notice the Results cell update.
Right click the Results cell and select Edit. This will launch CFD Post.
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Summary
In this workshop ANSYS FLUENT has been used within a workbench
project to compute the transonic, compressible flow over a naca0012
airfoil.
The implicit density based solver with solution steering was
employed.
Computed results have been compared to published experimental
data and good agreement was achieved.
A case comparison has been carried out within CFD Post to compare
the pressure fields at Mach 0.5 and Mach 0.7
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References
T.J. Coakley, Numerical Simulation of Viscous Transonic Airfoil
Flows, NASA Ames Research Center, AIAA-87-0416, 1987.
C.D. Harris, Two-Dimensional Aerodynamic Characteristics of the
NACA 0012 Airfoil in the Langley 8-foot Transonic Pressure Tunnel,
NASA Ames Research Center, NASA TM 81927, 1981.
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