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About radiation models in FlowVision

Last Updated: 28 September 2018

When the radiation model can be used?

If the radiation heat flow is comparable with other heat flow, which is the main heat flow source in the problem (for example, convective heat flow), you have to use a radiation model.

The radiation heat flow can be evaluated based on temperature difference between surrounding environment and the body’s surface using the Stefan-Boltzmann's law:

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The formula above represents the low for the absolutely black body (Plankian radiator). For real bodies you have to multiply the value by emissivity factor.

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First frequently asked questions

Last Updated: 30 August 2018

FAQ

The frequently asked questions at the first acquaintance with FlowVision (before its acquisition and during the using)

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Small cells and their role

Last Updated: 20 November 2017

What cells can be called Small cells

In FlowVision uses Cartesian grid that can be automatically locally downscaled. Grid cells intersecting computational domain boundaries and computational subregions are clipped by boundary surfaces.

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Fig.1. Splitting cells by geometry surface

After such clipping it is possible that size of new cells will be in many times smaller than initial cell:

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Fig. 2. Small cells

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Time steps in FSI tasks

Last Updated: 20 November 2017

In this article you can read about choosing time step in FSI tasks.

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FSI with FlowVision and Abaqus is dynamic, transient simulation every time. It is not allowed to use implicit static analysis, it is necessary to use dynamic Implicit analysis or explicit.

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Running PrePostProcessor on Linux using Wine software

Last Updated: 27 October 2021

At present, usage of PrePostprocessor (PPP) is officially supported only for Windows. However, sometimes it is necessary to run PPP on Linux too. Customers of FlowVision have the ability to do so due to special software, like Wine, that allows running windows applications on Linux. Let us demonstrate how to run PPP on Linux using Wine-5.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.2, to show you just how easy it is. The software version used in this article is FlowVision 3.12.02.

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Export of geometrical model from SolidWorks for importing to FlowVision

Last Updated: 20 November 2017

Most prevalent formats of 3D models for FlowVision are STL and VRML. Most of CAD allow to export 3D models to STL and VRML. SolidWorks also allows it.

In this article I will show what parameters of export in SolidWorks will be useful and allow achieving good accuracy of triangulation.

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Fundamentals of Post-processing in FlowVision.

Last Updated: 20 November 2017

It is very short article about post-processing in FlowVision. Just main idea which allow you quickly build several ColoredFD pictures.

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Smooth changing of variable value in FlowVision

Last Updated: 20 November 2017

Too quick changing of variable can give divergence or make convergence worse, because fast changes will give large gradients of physical variables.

For example, in tasks about turbines and compressors we have rotor which has large velocity of rotation. When we start simulation we can’t specify initial velocity for gas between blades of rotor, because structure of flow too complex. It means that during first time step we will have quick changes of velocity from zero (initial velocity of gas) to some large velocity of blades.

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If we will solve this task for incompressible liquid, we will have divergence. It is possible to make convergence better if we will exclude too quick changes, for example, we can change speed of rotation smoothly from zero.

FlowVision allow to specify very complex equations for any user’s variables. Below you will find some formula template which useful to use every time when you need specify some smooth changing of variable.

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Parallel simulation in FlowVision. What is necessary to know to be faster

Last Updated: 20 November 2017

 

In this article you will read about parallelization in FlowVision. It is necessary to understand several features, if you want to get a maximum from advantages of parallel simulations.

  • Why is not possible to accelerate simulation infinitely?
  • What is role of count of computational and initial cells in parallel simulations?
  • How to be faster?
  • What hardware is necessary to prefer?

How parallelization works. Computational grid decomposition

When you start simulation, FlowVision first of all will build computational grid and split it for several parts. After this FlowVision will redistribute parts of computational grid between processors. On picture below you can see result of splitting of computational grid for 4 processors:

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On each processor will be run one copy of Solver which will solve own part of computational grid.

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Investigation of the Grid convergence

Last Updated: 27 April 2021

When doing numerical hydrodynamic simulations, you certainly encounter insufficient accuracy of the obtained results. There can be many causes for this; one of the most typical causes is insufficient resolution by the computational grid.

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The process of looking for the minimal computational grid, which provides a good numerical simulation of the task (or class of tasks), is known as research of the grid convergence.

This article considers the following aspects:

  • What is the grid convergence and why it should be provided
  • Best practices of the grid convergence researches
  • What happens, if users neglect the grid convergence researches or do not bring them to a successful conclusion?
  • What is to be done, if the convergence cannot be obtained because of lack of the computational resources, but we really wish to obtain the results?

 

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Screenshots

Last Updated: 14 August 2018

We use QT, Microsoft MFC and OpenGL to give you comfortable tools for pre and post-processing.

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FlowVision CFD Workflow

Last Updated: 10 May 2018

Thanks to the well-developed technology of FlowVision; the basics of a classical CFD project workflow is changing...

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While developing and improving FlowVision; our main intention is allowing simulation engineers to focus on the physics of the case which is the essential objective of their work. On the other hand, classical CFD approaches and workflows leave engineers with no choice but make a great effort for geometry manipulations, meshing and similar tasks which are not the end but means of an engineering analysis process.

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