Frame Motion
enables the moving reference frame model for the cell zone. See Specifying the Rotation Axis and Defining Zone Motion for details.
7.2.1.1. Inputs for Fluid Zones
You will set all fluid conditions in the Fluid Dialog Box (Figure 7.10: The Fluid Dialog Box), which is accessed from the Cell Zone Conditions task page (as described in Setting Cell Zone and Boundary Conditions).
Figure 7.10: The Fluid Dialog Box
7.2.1.1.4. Specifying a Laminar Zone
When you are calculating a turbulent flow, it is possible to “turn off” turbulence modeling in a specific fluid zone. To disable turbulence modeling, turn on the Laminar Zone option in the Fluid dialog box. This is useful if you know that the flow in a certain region is laminar. For example, if you know the location of the transition point on an airfoil, you can create a laminar/turbulent transition boundary where the laminar cell zone borders the turbulent cell zone. This feature allows you to model turbulent transition on the airfoil.
By default, the Laminar Zone option will set the turbulent viscosity,
, to zero and disable turbulence production in the fluid zone. Turbulent quantities will still be transported through the zone, but effects on fluid mixing and momentum will be ignored. If you want to keep the turbulent viscosity, you can do so using the text command define/
boundary-conditions/fluid
. You will be asked if you want to Set Turbulent Viscosity to zero within laminar zone?
. If your response is no
, ANSYS Fluent will set the production term in the turbulence transport equation to zero, but will retain a nonzero
.
Disabling turbulence modeling in a fluid zone can be applied to all the turbulence models except the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model.
7.2.1.1.6. Specifying the Rotation Axis
If there are rotationally periodic boundaries adjacent to the fluid zone or if the zone is rotating, either the mesh or its reference frame, you must specify the rotation axis. To define the axis for a moving reference frame problem, set the Rotation-Axis Direction and Rotation-Axis Origin under the Reference Frame tab. To define the axis for a moving mesh problem, set the Rotation-Axis Direction and Rotation-Axis Origin under the Mesh Motion tab.
Note: If a frame motion and a mesh motion are specified at the same zone and this zone has rotationally periodic boundaries adjacent to it, then both axes have to be coaxial. Otherwise, the periodicity assumption is not valid and you will receive a warning message. In addition, the mesh check will fail.
The cell zone axis is independent of the axis of rotation used by any adjacent wall zones or any other cell zones. For 3D problems, the axis of rotation is the vector from the Rotation-Axis Origin in the direction of the vector given by your Rotation-Axis Direction inputs for the frame of reference and the mesh motion. For 2D non-axisymmetric problems, you will specify only the Rotation-Axis Origin; the axis of rotation is the
-direction vector passing through the specified point. (The
direction is normal to the plane of your geometry so that rotation occurs in the plane.) For 2D axisymmetric problems, you will not define the axis: the rotation will always be about the
axis, with the origin at (0,0).
7.2.1.1.7. Defining Zone Motion
To define zone motion for a moving reference frame (MRF), enable the Frame Motion option in the Fluid dialog box. Set the appropriate parameters in the expanded portion of the dialog box, under the Reference Frame tab.
To define zone motion for a moving (sliding) mesh, enable the Mesh Motion option in the Fluid dialog box. Set the appropriate parameters in the expanded portion of the dialog box, under the Mesh Motion tab. See Setting Up the Sliding Mesh Problem for details.
For cases that do not contain zones with motion specified in a relative frame to another zone, select absolute from the Relative To Cell Zone drop-down list. Here, the velocity and rotation components are specified in an absolute reference frame, which is the default setting, as shown in Figure 7.11: Rotation Specified in the Absolute Reference Frame. If no moving zones are present in the simulation, then absolute will be the only available selection. See The Multiple Reference Frame Model for more information.
Figure 7.11: Rotation Specified in the Absolute Reference Frame
For cases where you have a moving zone specified relative to another moving zone, select the cell zone carrying the primary motion from the Relative To Cell Zone drop-down list under the Reference Frame tab or the Mesh Motion tab. Note that for such cases, Rotation-Axis Origin (Relative) will appear in the interface, signifying coordinates relative to the zone selected from the Relative To Cell Zone drop-down list.
Figure 7.12: Rotation Specified Relative to a Moving Zone illustrates that the rotational axis origin of the small rotating zone is specified relative to the cell zone carrying the primary motion (having local coordinate system
).
Figure 7.12: Rotation Specified Relative to a Moving Zone
Note: The Relative To Cell Zone list will consist of all moving cell zones with an absolute motion specification (that is zones that are moving, but their motion is not relative to some other zone), excluding the current cell zone.
For problems that include linear, translational motion of the fluid zone, specify the Translational Velocity by setting the X, Y, and Z components under the Mesh Motion tab. For problems that include rotational motion, specify the rotational Speed under Rotational Velocity. The rotation axis is defined as described above. Note that the speed can be specified as a constant value or a transient profile. The transient profile may be in a file format, as described in Defining Transient Cell Zone and Boundary Conditions, or a UDF macro (DEFINE_TRANSIENT_PROFILE). Specifying the individual velocities as either a profile or a UDF allows you to specify a single component of the frame motion individually. However, you can also specify the frame motion using a user-defined function. This may prove to be quite convenient if you are modeling a more complicated motion of the moving reference frame, where the hooking of many different user-defined functions or profiles can be cumbersome.
Important: If you need to switch between the MRF and moving mesh models, simply click the Copy To Mesh Motion for zones with a moving frame of reference and Copy to Frame Motion for zones with moving meshes to transfer motion variables, such as the axes, frame origin, and velocity components between the two models. The variables used for the origin, axis, and velocity components, as well as for the UDF DEFINE_ZONE_MOTION
will be copied. This is particularly useful if you are doing a steady-state MRF simulation to obtain an initial solution for a transient Moving Mesh simulation in a turbomachine.
See Modeling Flows with Moving Reference Frames for details about modeling flows in moving reference frames. Details about the frame motion UDF can be found in DEFINE_ZONE_MOTION in the Fluent Customization Manual.
7.2.1.1.8. Defining Radiation Parameters
If you are using the DO radiation model, you can specify whether or not the fluid zone participates in radiation using the Participates in Radiation option. See Defining Boundary Conditions for Radiation for details.