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Introduction to FLUENT
Introductory FLUENT Training
2006 ANSYS, Inc. All rights reserved. ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary

Introductory FLUENT Notes Fluent User Services Center
FLUENT v6.3 December 2006 www.fluentusers.com
FLUENT is an ANSYS Product

ANSYS, Inc.
z Global Headquarters in Canonsburg, PA - USA (south of Pittsburgh)
Development and sales offices in U.S. and around the world
Publicly traded on NASDAQ stock exchange under ANSS
z All FLUENT products will be integrated into the ANSYS product line.
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Orientation
Agenda
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
FLUENT FLUENT GAMBIT GAMBIT One-on-One
(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 1) (Part 2) Consulting
Facilities
z Lunches
z Restrooms
z Smoking area
z Visitor parking
z Visitor badges
Goals of introductory FLUENT training

z Problem setup
Creating the model Geometry and mesh generation
Using the solver Problem setup, execution, and postprocessing
z Establish contact with your support staff
z Begin your own CFD project
We recommend working on relevant FLUENT and GAMBIT tutorials first.
Agenda (Day 1)
8:00 8:30 Introduction to ANSYS/Fluent
8:30 9:00 Lecture Introduction to CFD Analysis
9:00 9:30 Demonstration: Overview of the CFD Process
9:30 11:15 Tutorial Session Tutorial #1 (3D Mixing Elbow)
11:15 12:00 Lecture Solver Basics
12:00 1:00 Lunch
1:00 2:00 Lecture Boundary Conditions

2:00 3:00 Tutorial Session
3:00 4:00 Lecture Solver Settings
Agenda (Day 2)
8:00 9:00 Lecture Turbulence Modeling
10:30 11:15 Lecture Heat Transfer Modeling
11:15 12:00 Lecture User Defined Functions
12:00 1:00 Lunch
1:00 2:00 Lecture (Optional) Multiphase Modeling

2:00 3:00 Lecture (Optional) Reacting Flow Modeling
3:00 4:00 Lecture (Optional) Moving Zone Models
Technical Support
Eleven business teams
z Turbomachinery & Aircraft
z Space, Defense & Marine
z Electronics and Semiconductor
z Glass, Plastics & Materials
z Power Generation
z Chemicals and Consumer Products
z Petroleum
z Health Care and Water
z HVAC and Appliances
z Automotive Power Train
z Automotive Aerodynamics/Thermal
Each team has its own sales and support/consulting engineers.
FLUENTs User Services Center (USC) and Online Technical Support (OTS)
portal created to enhance your access to technical support.
Fluent User Services Center

www.fluentusers.com
Please register today!
Services include
z Release information
z Download updates
z Documentation
z Supported platform
z Defects and workarounds
z Presentations
z Training materials
z Online technical support
OTS overview and demo
via web-based training
Quick reference guide
User Services Center Registration

Using a web browser, access the FLUENT corporate
web page at www.fluent.com
z Take the Technical Support link under Services.
z Scroll down and click the Register Now button.
After registering, you will receive an e-mail with
your USC login and password at the address you
provided on the registration page.
Online Technical Support

Access from the USC
z Same account as USC
z Services include:
Find solutions
Ask a technical support question
Monitor status of previous question
Automatic updates
z A web-based training module is

available for download.
Exchange files with support staff

(anonymous FTP)
z ftp to ftp.fluent.com
z Log in as ftp and use your e-mail
address as the password.
z cd to incoming/xxx or
outgoing/xxx and put files in
binary mode.
xxx are the support engineers
initials.
Web-Based Trainings
Web-based training courses are
available from our
LearningCFD.com web site.
Modules can be downloaded to
your computer and viewed as
many times as you like
More modules are planned and
will be available in the near
future.
www.learningcfd.com/login/online/index.htm
ANSYS U.S. Regional Conferences

Attend an ANSYS Regional 2007 User Group Meetings planned
Conference and: z South Houston, TX (February)
z Meet with ANSYS/FLUENT users z East Washington DC area (April)
and staff. z West California (May)
z Attend training seminars. z North Detroit area (September)
z Learn other applications presented
by users and staff.
z Provide input to future software
development
Exact dates will be announced in

FLUENT publications.
z www.fluent.com
z Fluent News
z Fluent eNews
z ANSYS Solutions
FLUENT Products Integrated Into ANSYS Product Suite
FLUENT General purpose CFD solver for a wide range of industries.

Fidap Finite element-based CFD solver used for polymer processing
applications.
Polyflow Spectral element solver used for extrusion, blow molding
and viscoeleastic flow applications.
FLUENT for Catia FLUENT is embedded in Catia 5 to allow CFD to be
done in the Catia PLM environment.
GAMBIT Preprocessor for FLUENT, Fidap and Polyflow
TGrid Preprocessor that can generate a tet/hybrid mesh from an
imported surface mesh.
See the Appendix for more details on these products.
FLUENT Products Integrated into ANSYS Product Suite
Icepak Has a custom-built interface on top of FLUENT solver used for

analyzing electronics cooling applications.
Airpak Has a custom-built interface on top of FLUENT solver used for
solving ventilation/environmental contamination problems.
MixSim - Has a custom-built interface on top of FLUENT solver used to
solve mixing tank problems
FloWizard Has a wizard-driven interface that sits on top of FLUENT
and GAMBIT that can be easily used by non-CFD specialists.
CoolSim An interface to perform analysis of data center air flow and
cooling load requirements.
See the Appendix for more details on these products.
Other ANSYS Products

ANSYS, Inc. family of products include the following:
z ANSYS Advanced nonlinear mechanical and
multiphysics FEA solution capabilities
z ANSYS Workbench Complete environment for geometry
modeling, mesh manipulation, structural/thermal analysis,
and optimization, which is tightly integrated with CAD
packages.
z ANSYS CFX General purpose CFD solver, including the
coupled, parallel ANSYS CFX solver.
z ANSYS ICEM CFD Powerful meshing tools with general
pre- and post-processing features, including ICEM CFD for
generating complex CFD grids and AI*Environment for
creating sophisticated structural FEA meshes
ANSYS Workbench Overview

ANSYS Workbench comprises seven modules:
z Simulation for performing structural and thermal analyses using the ANSYS
solver
z CFX-Mesh for generating a mesh for the ANSYS CFX solver
z DesignModeler for creating and modifying CAD geometry to prepare the
solid model for use in Simulation or CFX-Mesh
z DesignExplorer and DesignExplorer VT for investigating the effect of
variations input to the response of the system
z FE Modeler for translating a Nastran mesh for use in ANSYS
z Advanced CFD for performing CFD analyses using the ANSYS CFX solver.
z Advanced Meshing for generating complex CFD grids and sophisticated
structural FEA meshes using ICEM CFD
Advanced Meshing Advanced CFD
ANSYS Workbench
Simulation DesignXplorer (VT)
DesignModeler CFX-Mesh FE Modeler
Documentation
Documentation for all products is
available at www.fluentusers.com
A separate CD for each product is
available which contains all
manuals for that product.
Two formats are available
z HTML Useful for general
viewing and searching. Limited
printing.
z Adobe Portable Document
Format (PDF) Useful for
printing high quality pages.
Fluent 6.3 Documentation Web Page at

www.fluentusers.com
Training Evaluation
Evaluation forms handed out
with training materials.
Your feedback helps us improve

our training materials and
methods.
Please turn in your evaluations

forms before you leave.
Appendix
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FLUENT
FLUENT applications:
z External/internal automotive flows and
in-cylinder flows
z High-speed aerodynamics
z Rocket flows
z Turbomachinery
z Chemical reactors Surface pressure distribution in an
z Cyclones automotive engine cooling jacket.
z Bubble columns
z Mixing vessels
z Fluidized beds Instantaneous solids concentration in a
z Flow-induced noise riser indicating uniform distribution of
z Moving and dynamic mesh catalyst at the riser head.
z Many more!
FIDAP
Pulsatile Flow in an Artery with a
FIDAP application examples: Compliant Vein Graft
z Polymer processing Non-Newtonian
flow in extrusion dies Velocity
Contours
z Thin film coating
z Biomedical Oxygenators, blood
pumps, deforming arteries.
Deforming artery
z Semiconductor crystal growth
Rigid artery
z Other metal, glass, can chemical
processing problems.
Initial Mesh
U inlet = U 0 sin ( t )
Rigid Compliant Rigid Time History Plot of Wall Shear Rate

Wall Wall Wall Showing Effect of Wall Deformations.
POLYFLOW Inverse Die Design:

Determines die geometry based
upon desired extruded shape.
POLYFLOW is a finite element
solver for laminar, viscous flows
Useful with complex rheology
and free surfaces.
Applications: Requested part shape and calculated die
z Extrusion, coextrusion, die lip shape for a rubber car door seal.
design
z Blow molding, thermoforming
z Film casting, glass sheet
forming/stretching, fiber
drawing Blow molding simulation of a
gas tank using the membrane
z Chemical reactions, foaming element.
z Viscoelastic flows (memory
effects)
FLUENT for CATIA V5 brings CFD

analysis into the CATIA V5 PLM
environment.
Fully imbedded in the analysis infrastructure
of CATIA V5:
z Flow volume extraction
z meshing
z simulation
z post-processing
z knowledgeware and data management
Full generative associativity between
geometry and CFD models
FLUENT for CATIA V5 can be deployed
throughout the full product life cycle.
GAMBIT
A single, integrated
pre-processor for
CFD analysis.
z Geometry
creation
z Mesh generation
z Mesh quality
examination
z Boundary zone
assignment
TGrid
A pre-processor for
tet/hybrid mesh
generation.
Useful when starting
with triangular
surface mesh.
IcePak
IcePak is focused on electronics
cooling design:
z Cooling airflow, heat conduction,
convection and radiation heat
transfer
The user interface and automatic
meshing are tailored for applications
such as:
z Cabinet design
Flow pathlines and temperature
z Fan placement distribution in a fan-cooled computer
z Board-level design cabinet.
z Heat sink evaluation
AirPak
Simplifies the design and analysis of
ventilation systems
Accurate, quick, and easy-to-use design tool
that empowers designers and professionals,
without extensive backgrounds in computer
applications, to utilize the powers of
advanced CFD tools
Optimize your designs or pinpoint problems
based on accurate predictions of airflow
patterns, thermal conditions, comfort
conditions, and/or contamination control
effectiveness
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
z Impeller libraries from leading equipment
manufacturers
z Transient sliding mesh, steady-state multiple
reference frame models
z Non-Newtonian rheology
FloWizard
Our first general purpose CFD
product for non-specialists driven
by FLUENT and GAMBIT.
FloWizards focus is on ease of use
and automation:
z It is a highly-automated, first
pass simulation tool for use in
basic flow and heat transfer
calculations.
z A wizard-based interface guides
the user through all the steps of a
CFD analysis, from problem set-
up to post-processing.
z The user is insulated from
specialized CFD parameters,
such as discretization and
turbulence model choices.

ANSYS Workbench also consists of the TurboSystem, which is an
industry specific solution for designing rotating machines. It consists
of the following additional modules:
z BladeModeler an efficient 3-D rotating machinery design tool for bladed
components.
z TurboGrid a high quality hexahedral meshing tool for blade design.
BladeModeler TurboGrid
DesignModeler Overview
DesignModeler (DM) is a
component of ANSYS Workbench.
A CAD-like modeler with
analysis modeling goals:
z Performs unique geometry
modification capabilities for
simulation:
Feature Simplification DesignModeler
Enclosure Operation
Fill Operation
Spot Welds
Split Surfaces
Surface Model Extraction
Planar Body Extraction
Beam Modeling
DesignModeler Overview
Contains parametric modeling
capability:
z 2D Sketcher with Dimensions
and Constraints
Integrates directly with ANSYS
Workbench modules
z Simulation DesignModeler
z CFX-Mesh
z Advanced Meshing (ICEM)
z DesignXplorer
z BladeModeler
CFX-Mesh Overview
CFX-Mesh is a component of
Workbench designed for
generating CFD meshes for
the ANSYS CFX Solver.
Creates mesh in solid
regions
z Simple user inputs
z Tightly coupled with
DesignModeler
z Hybrid mesh approach
z Capable of generating large
meshes
z Advanced mesh refinement
controls
z Produces a native-format
CFX gtm file
CFX-Mesh
CFX-Mesh Overview
Hybrid mesh approach
Triangular surface mesh
Prismatic/Inflated mesh
Pyramidal intermediate elements
Tetrahedral mesh generator

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Introduction to FLUENT

Introductory FLUENT Training

2006 ANSYS, Inc. All rights reserved. ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary

FLUENT is an ANSYS Product

Goals of introductory FLUENT training

12:00 1:00 Lunch

1:00 2:00 Lecture Boundary Conditions

12:00 1:00 Lunch

1:00 2:00 Lecture (Optional) Multiphase Modeling

Fluent User Services Center

User Services Center Registration

Online Technical Support

z A web-based training module is

Exchange files with support staff

ANSYS U.S. Regional Conferences

Exact dates will be announced in

FLUENT Products Integrated Into ANSYS Product Suite

FLUENT General purpose CFD solver for a wide range of industries.

See the Appendix for more details on these products.

FLUENT Products Integrated into ANSYS Product Suite

Icepak Has a custom-built interface on top of FLUENT solver used for

See the Appendix for more details on these products.

Other ANSYS Products

ANSYS Workbench Overview

ANSYS Workbench Overview

Advanced Meshing Advanced CFD

Simulation DesignXplorer (VT)

DesignModeler CFX-Mesh FE Modeler

Fluent 6.3 Documentation Web Page at

Your feedback helps us improve

Please turn in your evaluations

2006 ANSYS, Inc. All rights reserved. ANSYS, Inc. Proprietary

Rigid Compliant Rigid Time History Plot of Wall Shear Rate

POLYFLOW Inverse Die Design:

FLUENT for CATIA V5 brings CFD

ANSYS Workbench Overview

Triangular surface mesh

Pyramidal intermediate elements

Tetrahedral mesh generator

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