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Jack
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Hello "CFDmates" how are you? So, here is the thing... I have a steady state, single phase, laminar, incompresible flow with a constant density and viscosity inside a microfluidics channel (my geometry has two parallel pipes, one at the upper side and one at the bottom side and they are connected to with a nozzle). I would like to consider the effect of the gravity in my model using the ANSYS CFX but without turn on the buoyancy option. How can I do it?
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Erik
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It does not sound like gravity will have any effect at all, other than hydrostatic pressure on the walls, which you could just add in post processing.
Is the flow gravity driven or something? You could set the the thermal expansion coefficient to zero (or a very small number 1e-30 if it rejects zero) then turn on buoyancy. Sorry I don't fully understand what you are trying to model. |
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Thank you for your reply! I do also believe that gravity plays a minor rolle in my case but I need to examine it. So, here are two images for better understanding
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Su...ew?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NT0...ew?usp=sharing I've been told that the fluid goes downwards because of the channel's geometry and not because of the gravity. Like in the outer space or something... |
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I am puzzled why you want to model buoyancy but do not want to turn the buoyancy model on. If you want to model buoyancy just turn the buoyancy model on.
If you don't like the built in buoyancy model you can always use a source term to do your own. The buoyancy term is just a simple source term.
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Hello! I just want to take into account the gravity without turning on the buoyancy since I do not have thermal phenomena and the fluid's density is constant.
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If the fluid density is constant then gravity does nothing to the flow. All it does is add a hydrostatic head. If all you want is the pressure including the hydrostatic head then just turn buoyancy on and you will get it (in the absolute pressure variable). If gravity affects the flow somehow then you better explain how because nothing you have said so far would be affected by gravity.
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Thank you very much both of you! I did what evcelica said and my results were exactly the same! Now I have the proof I wanted!
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