Simulation of natural convective heat transfer

- December 21, 2019 at 3:07 pm
  
  Crammer1
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  i have modeled a natural circulation loop consisting a heat source, heat sink and adiabatic sections with liquid water as working fluid in ansys fluent. the length of heat source i used is bigger than the heat sink. my questions are: it is possible that length of heat source be higher than that of heat sink. my second is that how can i calculate outlet temperature of the heat sink in the ansys fluent
- December 21, 2019 at 7:33 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  I don't use AIM so maybe the terminology there is different. What is the specific boundary condition you used, was it temperature or heat flux? What version of AIM are you using?
- December 22, 2019 at 3:43 am
  
  Crammer1
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  sorry what do you mean by AIM. i used temperature, 150c in heat sink and 170c in heat source. however, i used boussineq approximation.
- December 22, 2019 at 2:03 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  You posted this discussion in the ANSYS AIM Tutorials section. AIM is a different user interface from Workbench but they both use the same back-end Fluent solver. If you are using Workbench, then I can move this discussion to the Fluid Dynamics section where more people will see it.
  
  If you have a loop, then where is the inlet and outlet? Please insert an image into your reply.
  
  Yes, you can have the heat source and heat sink be different lengths.
  
  I don't understand what you are asking when you say "how can i calculate outlet temperature of the heat sink". You specified the heat sink temperature. You can plot the temperature of water around the loop between the heat source and heat sink, but each of those are maintained at the specified temperature.
- December 22, 2019 at 2:20 pm
  
  Crammer1
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  yes i'm using ansys work bench. i created my domain in space claim then, meshed it in ansys work benched i want to know how to find coolant temperature (T2) as i will use it to find RAYLEIGH NUMBER.
- December 22, 2019 at 2:21 pm
  
  Crammer1
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  yes i'm using ansys work bench. i created my domain in space claim then, meshed it in ansys work benched i want to know how to find coolant temperature (T2) as i will use it to find RAYLEIGH NUMBER.
- December 25, 2019 at 5:57 pm
  
  peteroznewman
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  The ANSYS Staff who answer CFD questions are on holiday until 2020.
  
  In Workbench, right mouse click on Model and Clear Generated Data. That will delete the mesh. Then do File, Save, then do File, Archive... don't include Results. Then the size of the .wbpz file will be < 120 MB and you can use the Attach button to upload that file AFTER you reply. Say what version of ANSYS you are using.

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