[JohnDEngineer]

Hi all,

I'm working with ANSYS AIM and I'm having some issues doing CFD, which I'm hoping someone here can help me out with.

I'll try to summarize what it is I'm working with. Essentially, I modeled an oven. At the top, there are two fans (which I've integrated with a heating box just for ease in cfd) which Iare defined as circles in the model. These two fans are at the top and opposite to each other. They introduce air into the system which flows down a chute on each respective side, into the main heating chamber through some baffles. The heated air rises back up and is re-circulated.

My issues are as follows:

1.) How do I do re-circulation in ANSYS AIM? Most videos for help merely have an inlet and outlet that do no connect with each other. Should I make the fan geometry circles the inlet, and select them again as outputs when defining the physics in AIM? Or should I model another ring offset from the original and name that as an outlet?

2.) Due to modeling this oven as one big piece, accessing its inner portions can be a little difficult. The way I do this is by turning off "show faces" and doing edge selection for whatever inner components I wish to select (such as the fan edges). Is there another way I can access the interior without doing this? One video I saw with ANSYS AIM, the user was able to cut the geometry he was analyzing in half, giving him easy access to the interior. I guess what I'm asking for is a "hide" option of some sort that'll cut geometry in half. I haven't been able to find anything like this. Any tips?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-John

[JoSchl]

Hey John,

can you upload a picture or your geomety?

[TimH]

Hey

1. Very hard to understand without a picture.

2. You have an option to make a plane which can cut the part in halfs for you to visualize the interior. The plane buttob is located in the upper right corner. Else you can right click and say hide on a given part/surface.

BR,
Tim