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CFX-FSI 14.5 WS04 ThermalStress 2way
CFX-FSI 14.5 WS04 ThermalStress 2way
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Problem Overview
Water with a transient sinusoidal inlet
temperature flows through a duct
Water with an inverse inlet
temperature profile through a bent
pipe within the duct
The solid steel that makes up the
annular pipe wall between the duct
flow and pipe flow undergoes thermal
expansion and contraction.
The movement of steel can
potentially affect the fluid flow in the
duct and pipe.
Steel pipe
walls
Duct
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Duct Inlet
Pipe Inlet
Duct Outlet
Pipe Outlet
Temp at
pipe inlet
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Clamped
adiabatic
end
Clamped
adiabatic
end
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Workflow Overview
The geometry, meshes and a basic CFX domain and boundary conditions have
already been completed. To complete the workshop you will:
Post-process
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Starting Workbench
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The structural geometry and mesh has already been created. A mesh has been
imported into a CFX Component System and a basic setup defined
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Structural Model
Now complete the structural FSI setup
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Number of Steps = 1
Step End Time = 1 s
Auto Time Stepping = Off
Define By = Substeps
Number of Substeps = 1
Time Integration = On
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Thermal Conditions
The solid elements defined using the Geometry
command snippets have thermal degrees of
freedom, but there is no place to define thermal
model settings and conditions in a structural
simulation in Workbench. These must be set using
Commands objects.
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Thermal Conditions
16. Insert the Commands as follows:
mfou,5
The mfou command reduces the frequency of results data written to the rst file to every
5th time step. For this case no further thermal boundary conditions are required. The
annular ends will default to an adiabatic condition. In general other thermal settings
should be specified in this Commands object. An example is given at the end of this
workshop.
This completes the structural setup. When a CFX system is later linked to the Transient
Structural System, an input file (ds.dat) will automatically be written when the
Structural cell is updated.
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Edit the Setup cell (B2) of the CFX system to start CFX-Pre
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12. Leave the Mesh Motion Option as Stationary and click OK to update the
boundary
13. Edit the Duct Outlet boundary condition
14. Note the settings used, leave the Mesh Motion Option as Stationary
and click OK to update this boundary
15. Repeat the previous step for the Coil Inlet and Coil Outlet boundaries
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FSI Interface
16. Add a new boundary condition named FSI
Walls
17. Set the Boundary Type as Wall and the
Location to coilwall and ductcoilwall
18. Under Boundary Details set the Mesh
Motion Option to ANSYS Multifield with the
ANSYS Interface specified as FSIN_1 and
CFX receiving Total Mesh Displacement
from ANSYS and passing back Total Force
19. Set the Heat Transfer Option to
ANSYS Multifield with CFX receiving
Temperature and sending Wall Heat Flow
20. Click OK to complete the boundary
definition
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Name = ForceOnWalls
Option = Expression
Name = MaxDisplacement
Option = Expression
Expression =
maxVal(Total Mesh
Displacement)@FSI Walls
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Close the CFX Solver Manager and then right-click on cell B3 and select
Clear Generated Data to delete the files from the aborted run
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Edit Solver Control and increase the Max. Coeff. Loops to 6 then click OK
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MaxDisplacement
ForceOnWalls
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16. Post-processing can be performed by editing the CFX Results cell (B4).
Detailed instructions are not provided here.
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Offset Temperature
Initial Condition
Specified Convection Coefficient and External Temperature
Specified Temperature Boundary
The ic command sets the initial temperature. If not set the Environment Temperature
set in Mechanical is used.
The sf command can set convection, heat flux and radiation boundary condition. In the
example above a convection coefficient is set using the Named Selection
barrel_external_walls.
The d command sets the degree of freedom, with a Temperature of 80 set on the
Named Selection plunger_inlet in this example.
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Final Notes
In this case, the maximum deformation is small (on the order of 1.8 mm). This has
little effect on the fluid flow, so the problem could be run using 1-way force coupling.
This is done by turning off mesh deformation in the fluid domain and passing forces
without receiving displacements. The thermal transfer should remain as 2-way
coupling.
One could also solve the CHT problem completely within CFX and then pass the
volumetric temperature to a static structural system where stresses would be
calculated. A static structural system would be suitable since the structural inertia is
negligible.
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