1 AIChE Annual Meeting - November 2003 FlowLab “A Virtual Fluids Laboratory” CACHE / Fluent...

1 http://flowlab.fluent.com AIChE Annual Meeting - November 2003

FlowLab“A Virtual Fluids Laboratory”

CACHE / Fluent Presentation

for AIChE Annual Meeting


Presentation Outline

• Fluent’s interactions with universities

• CFD and undergraduate engineering education

• Overview of Fluent/FlowLab

• FlowLab templates

• University collaborations

• FlowLab availability


Fluent University Program• FLUENT, FIDAP, POLYFLOW at over 600 universities

worldwide• Fluent views universities as important strategic partners

– Advanced R&D• physics, computational methods & technology• consortia, funded research

– Expanded software capability• industry funded• technology transfer

– Applied CFD• leading edge applications, validations• Students – CFD practitioners

– Use of CFD in the curriculum


CFD & Undergraduate Education

• CFD is a critical technology for industry– Improve design– Cut costs– Understand equipment performance

• CFD in academia today– Student projects– Funded research

• Growing need to provide CFD exposure to undergraduate engineering students

• Difficult to deploy CFD tools in classroom


Fluent/FlowLab: Deploy CFD in the Classroom

• Built on top of GAMBIT and FLUENT

• Based on pre-defined, parameterized fluid mechanics and heat transfer problems

– Eliminates long learning curve

– Validated exercises tied to traditional thermal/fluids curriculum

– Customized or extended for individual instructor needs

• Targeted at undergraduate or MS level courses in engineering & science

– Homework exercises

– Augment existing lectures


FlowLab 1.1: Sudden Expansion ExerciseUser Interface Summary


FlowLab 1.1: Orifice Flow ExerciseGeometry Creation – Axisymmetric Geometry

Radius and Diameter Ratio specified by user


FlowLab 1.1: Orifice Flow ExerciseBoundary Conditions and Material Properties

Inlet Velocity specified

Density and Viscosity specified


Mesh Option Selection (course, medium, or fine)

FlowLab 1.1: Orifice Flow ExerciseMeshing


FlowLab 1.1: Orifice Flow ExerciseSolving Flow Problem

User specifies # iterations and convergence criteria

Residuals displayed while converging


FlowLab 1.1: Orifice Flow ExercisePost-Processing

Contour plots, vector diagrams, and particle tracking capabilities used to analyze flowfield


FlowLab 1.1: Orifice Flow ExerciseReports

Total pressure drop, discharge coefficient, and % pressure recovery are reported

XY Plots are available, example shows radial profiles of axial velocity


Time Dependent Analysis

FlowLab showing contours of velocity for the cylinder exercise at Re=83

New Feature Introduced in

October, 2003


Particle Tracking

New Feature Introduced in

October, 2003

FlowLab showing streamline bands overlaid with particles colored by velocity magnitude introduced downstream of the orifice for the orifice exercise at Re=40,000


Benefits of FlowLab• Use visualization to reinforce fundamental fluid

dynamics concepts

• Expand lab experience - easily and at low cost

• Stimulate interest in fluid mechanics

• Expose students to new job skills

Fundamental fluids examples

Exploration of CFD principles

Real-world applications


FlowLab Exercises• Developed in collaboration with university professors

– FlowLab template library• http://flowlab.fluent.com/exercise/index.htm

– Free and web-accessible to FlowLab users

• Templates available include …– Developing Flow and Heat Transfer in a Pipe– Fully Developed Pipe Flow– Flow Around a Cylinder – Sudden Expansion in a Pipe– Lift/Drag on an Airfoil– Flow Over a Heated Plate– Heat Conduction– Flow Through an Orifice


FlowLab Exercise:Coronary Artery

TEMPLATEDEVELOPER

Professor Cecile Legallais

Universite de Technologie de

Compiegne

France


FlowLab Exercise:Taylor-Couette Flow

TEMPLATEDEVELOPER

Dr. Yanhui Hu and Dr. Rodney Fox

Iowa State University

USA


FlowLab Exercise:Center Gated Disk

TEMPLATEDEVELOPER

Dr. Steven Parks & Dr. Charles Petty

Michigan State University

USA


FlowLab Collaborators• NSF Curriculum Development Project

– University of Iowa, Iowa State, Cornell, Howard

• Course Companion Materials– John Cimbala, Penn State University

• Internet Course on Multiphase Transport Phenomena– Charles Petty & Steve Parks – Michigan State

– Univ. of Tulsa, Univ. of Akron

• CACHE Corporation

• ASEE– 2002 ASEE Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty

• Jennifer Sinclair & Kim Hayden – Purdue


Snapshot of FlowLab Users• U. S. Military Academy• University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth• Illinois Institute of Technology• Clarkson University• University of Oklahoma• Case Western Reserve University• Colorado State University• Wayne State University• University of Kansas• Rochester Institute of Technology• University of Nevada• West Virginia University• University of Delaware• University of Maryland• Illinois Institute of Technology• Virginia Military Institute• Purdue University• Howard University• Brigham Young University• Pomona College• University of Connecticut• Iowa State University• Columbia University• Cornell University• University of Victoria• University of Iowa• Webb Institute• University of Alberta• Northern Illinois University

• University of Yucatan• Huazhong University of Science and Technology• Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey• FEI-Fundacao Educacional Inaciana Pe. Sabolia De Mederios• FH Trier• Montanuniversität Leoben• Georg-Simon-Ohm Fachhochschule Nürnberg• Silesian Technical University• Institut Superieur Meurice Ceria• Technological Education Institute of Crete• NED University of Engineering and Technology• Politechnika Wroclawska• Riydah College of Technology,• Politechnika Wroclawska• University of Patras • Univeristy of Northumbria• Universiteit Gent• University of Glasgow• CAE Risalpur• Technical Institute of Crete• Technical University of Szczecin• Oxford Brookes University• Dublin City University• CPE Lyon• UNIVERSITE DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIEGNE• CPE Lyon• Politecnico di Milano


Platform Support

• Support for Windows Operating Systems– Windows XP, Windows 2000

• Support for Redhat Linux and compatible operating systems– Redhat Linux versions 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0


Obtaining FlowLab• Department license

– Allows a class direct access to the software– 25 seats– $1,000 / year

• Individual license– Allows a professor to perform classroom demonstrations– 1 seat– $200 / year

• Trial license– A six-month free evaluation will be provided upon request


Questions

• Contact Information– Website: http://flowlab.fluent.com– E-mail Inquiry: [email protected]– Phone: 1-800-445-4454 ext. 308

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