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Tut24 Turbo PostprocessiHFHng
Tut24 Turbo PostprocessiHFHng
Introduction
Turbo Postprocessing
This tutorial demonstrates the turbomachinery postprocessing capabilities of FLUENT. In this example, you will read the case and data les (without doing the calculation) and perform a number of turbomachinery-specic postprocessing operations. This tutorial demonstrates how to do the following: Dene the topology of a turbomachinery model. Create surfaces for the display of 3D data. Revolve 3D geometry to display a 360-degree image. Report turbomachinery quantities. Display averaged contours for turbomachinery. Display 2D contours for turbomachinery. Display averaged XY plots for turbomachinery.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with the menu structure in FLUENT and that you have completed Tutorial 1. Some steps in the setup and solution procedure will not be shown explicitly.
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Problem Description
The problem considered in this tutorial is a centrifugal compressor shown schematically in Figure 24.1. The model comprises a single 3D sector of the compressor to take advantage of the circumferential periodicity in the problem. The ow of air through the compressor is simulated and the postprocessing capabilities of FLUENT are used to display realistic, full 360-degree images of the solution obtained.
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(a) Retain the default Edges option in the Options group box.
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(b) Select Outline in the Edge Type list. (c) Deselect all the surfaces from the Surfaces selection list and click the Outline button (below the Surface Types list). (d) Click Display. (e) Rotate the view using the left mouse button and zoom in using the middle mouse button, to obtain an isometric display of the compressor duct.
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Figure 24.2: Graphics Display of the Edges of the Compressor Mesh (f) Close the Grid Display panel. Extra: You can use the right mouse button to check which zone number corresponds to each boundary. If you click the right mouse button on one of the boundaries displayed in the graphics window, its zone number, name, and type will be printed in the console. This feature is especially useful when you have several zones of the same type and you want to distinguish between them quickly.
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1. Specify the surfaces representing the hub. (a) Retain the default selection of Hub in the Boundaries list. (b) Select the surfaces that represent the hub (wall-diuser-hub, wall-hub, and wall-inlet-hub) in the Surfaces selection list. Hint: Scroll down the Surfaces list to locate the surfaces representing the hub. 2. Specify the surfaces representing the casing. (a) Select Casing in the Boundaries list.
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(b) Select wall-diuser-shroud, wall-inlet-shroud, and wall-shroud in the Surfaces selection list. 3. Specify the surfaces representing the periodic boundaries. (a) Select Theta Periodic in the Boundaries list. (b) Select periodic.33, periodic.34, and periodic.35 in the Surfaces selection list. Note: While Theta Periodic represents periodic boundary zones on the circumferential boundaries of the ow passage, Theta Min and Theta Max are wall surfaces at the minimum and maximum position on a circumferential boundary. There are no such wall surfaces in this problem. 4. Specify the surface representing the Inlet (inlet). 5. Specify the surface representing the Outlet (outlet). 6. Specify the surface representing the Blade (wall-blade). 7. Retain the default name of new-topology-1 for the Turbo Topology Name. 8. Click Dene to set all the turbomachinery boundaries. 9. Close the Turbo Topology panel. FLUENT will inform you that the turbomachinery postprocessing functions have been enabled, and the Turbo menu will appear in FLUENT menu bar at the top of the console. You can dene any number of turbo topologies in the Turbo Topology panel. This is especially useful when you have a model comprising multiple blade rows and you need to dene more than one blade row simultaneously. Each topology can be assigned a specic name and accessed using the drop-down list in the Turbo Topology panel. See Section 28.9.1 of the Users Guide for more information on dening turbomachinery topologies. Note: You can display the selected surfaces by clicking the Display button in the Turbo Topology panel. This is useful as a graphical check to ensure that all relevant surfaces have been selected.
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(a) Select Grid... and Meridional Coordinate from the Surface of Constant dropdown lists. (b) Enter 0.2 in the Iso-Values text eld. (c) Enter meridional-0.2 for New Surface Name. (d) Click Create. Note: The isovalues you enter for these turbo-specic surfaces are expressed as a percentage of the entire domain (i.e., you just dened a surface of meridional coordinate equal to 20% of the path along the duct). (e) Similarly, dene surfaces of meridional coordinates equal to 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8.
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(a) Select Grid... and Spanwise Coordinate from the Surface of Constant drop-down lists. (b) Enter 0.25 in the Iso-Values text eld. (c) Enter spanwise-0.25 for New Surface Name. (d) Click Create. (e) Similarly, dene surfaces of spanwise coordinates equal to 0.5 and 0.75. 3. Close the Iso-Surface panel.
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Step 5: Contours
1. Display lled contours of pressure on the meridional isosurfaces (Figure 24.3). Display Contours...
(a) Enable Filled in the Options group box. (b) Select Pressure... and Static Pressure from the Contours of drop-down lists. (c) Select inlet, meridional-0.2, meridional-0.4, meridional-0.6, meridional-0.8, and outlet from the Surfaces selection list. (d) Enable Draw Grid in the Options group box. The Grid Display panel will open. i. Retain the current settings and close the Grid Display panel. (e) Click Display. (f) Rotate and zoom the display using the left and middle mouse buttons, respectively, to obtain the view shown in Figure 24.3. In Figure 24.3, you can observe the buildup of static pressure along the duct. 2. Display lled contours of Mach number (Figure 24.4). (a) Select Velocity... and Mach Number from the Contours of drop-down lists. (b) Click Display. In Figure 24.4, you can observe locations at which the ow becomes slightly supersonic, about halfway through the duct.
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1.84e+00 1.78e+00 1.73e+00 1.67e+00 1.62e+00 1.56e+00 1.50e+00 1.45e+00 1.39e+00 1.34e+00 1.28e+00 1.22e+00 1.17e+00 1.11e+00 1.06e+00 1.00e+00 9.44e-01 8.88e-01 8.32e-01 Y 7.76e-01 7.20e-01 X Z
1.04e+00 9.85e-01 9.35e-01 8.85e-01 8.35e-01 7.84e-01 7.34e-01 6.84e-01 6.34e-01 5.83e-01 5.33e-01 4.83e-01 4.33e-01 3.82e-01 3.32e-01 2.82e-01 2.32e-01 1.81e-01 1.31e-01 Y 8.07e-02 3.05e-02 X Z
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3. Display lled contours of Mach number on the spanwise isosurfaces (Figure 24.5). (a) Deselect all surfaces in the Surfaces selection list. (b) Select spanwise-0.25, spanwise-0.5, and spanwise-0.75 from the Surfaces selection list. (c) Click Display.
1.04e+00 9.85e-01 9.35e-01 8.85e-01 8.35e-01 7.84e-01 7.34e-01 6.84e-01 6.34e-01 5.83e-01 5.33e-01 4.83e-01 4.33e-01 3.82e-01 3.32e-01 2.82e-01 2.32e-01 1.81e-01 1.31e-01 Y 8.07e-02 X Z 3.05e-02
Figure 24.5: Filled Contours of Mach Number on the Spanwise Isosurfaces The display in Figure 24.5 allows you to further study the variation of the Mach number inside the duct. You may want to explore using dierent combinations of surfaces to display the same or additional variables. 4. Display a 360-degree image of the Mach number contours on the 0.5 spanwise isosurface (Figure 24.6). (a) Deselect spanwise-0.25 and spanwise-0.75 from the Surfaces selection list. (b) Click Display.
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A. Select uid in the Cell Zones list. This will select all the surfaces in the Associated Surfaces list. The default value for Number of Repeats is set to 20. The display is updated to give a full, 360 degree view. B. Click Set and close the Graphics Periodicity panel. The display will be updated to show the entire geometry (see Figure 24.6.
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1.04e+00 9.85e-01 9.35e-01 8.85e-01 8.35e-01 7.84e-01 7.34e-01 6.84e-01 6.34e-01 5.83e-01 5.33e-01 4.83e-01 4.33e-01 3.82e-01 3.32e-01 2.82e-01 2.32e-01 1.81e-01 1.31e-01 8.07e-02 Y 3.05e-02 X
Figure 24.6: Filled Contours of Mach Number on the 0.5 Spanwise Isosurface ii. Close the Views panel. 5. Close the Contours panel. Note: This step demonstrated a typical view-manipulation task. See Tutorial 23 for further examples of postprocessing features.
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1. Retain the default selection of Mass-Weighted in the Averages list. 2. Click Compute. 3. Close the Turbo Report panel.
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(a) Select Pressure... and Static Pressure from the Contours of drop-down lists. (b) Click Display. (c) Close the Turbo Averaged Contours panel.
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1.80e+00 1.76e+00 1.72e+00 1.67e+00 1.63e+00 1.58e+00 1.54e+00 1.50e+00 1.45e+00 1.41e+00 1.36e+00 1.32e+00 1.28e+00 1.23e+00 1.19e+00 1.14e+00 1.10e+00 1.06e+00 1.01e+00 9.68e-01 9.24e-01
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Step 8: 2D Contours
In postprocessing a turbomachinery solution, it is often preferable to display contours on constant spanwise coordinates and then, project these contours onto a plane. This permits easier evaluation of the contours, especially for surfaces that are highly threedimensional. FLUENT allows you to display contours in this manner using the Turbo 2D Contours panel. 1. Display 2D contours of Mach number (Figure 24.8). Turbo 2D Contours...
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(a) Select Velocity... and Mach Number from the Contours of drop-down lists. (b) Enter 0.5 for Normalised Spanwise Coordinates. Note: For highly curved edges, if a surface is created very close to the curved edge the resulting surface may have some void spaces in it. (c) Click Display. (d) Use the mouse to obtain the view shown in Figure 24.8.
9.12e-01 8.69e-01 8.26e-01 7.83e-01 7.40e-01 6.96e-01 6.53e-01 6.10e-01 5.67e-01 5.24e-01 4.81e-01 4.37e-01 3.94e-01 3.51e-01 3.08e-01 2.65e-01 2.22e-01 1.79e-01 1.35e-01 9.22e-02 4.91e-02
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Figure 24.8: 2D Contours of Mach Number on Surface of Spanwise Value 0.5 (e) Close the Turbo 2D Contours panel.
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(a) Select Temperature... and Static Temperature from the Y Axis Function dropdown lists. (b) Select Meridional Distance from the X Axis Function drop-down list. (c) Enter 0.9 for the Fractional Distance. (d) Click Plot. (e) Close the Turbo Averaged XY Plot panel.
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Figure 24.9: Averaged XY Plot of Static Temperature on Spanwise Surface of 0.9 Isovalue
Summary
This tutorial demonstrated the use of some of the turbomachinery-specic postprocessing features of FLUENT. These features can be accessed once you dene the topology of the problem. More extensive general-purpose postprocessing features are demonstrated in Tutorial 23. Also, see Chapter 28 and Chapter 29 of the Users Guide for additional information.
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