[chabib]

this the problem. steam inlet from below the drum with temp 380 C, mass flow 0,4 kg/s with int condition 60 C (for wall and fluid), steam injected for 460 min. air inside the drum with temp. 60 C. here is the step what i've done.

gambit :
1.import model 2D
2. create face 1 for solid and create face 2 for liquid
3. mesh face for face 1 and face 2 together
4. create countinuum type face 1 solid and face 2 liquid selected
5. creat BC inlet at buttom line and symetry on left edge
6. export mesh

fluent 6 :
1. read case
2. scale
2. define model solver - unsteady
3. define mdl multiphase- eularian
4. define mdl energy - check
5. define mdl visc - k-epsilon
6. define material - vapor water (solid with rho=7850, cp =450, K = 40)
7. define phase- phase 1 (air) phase 2 (vapor)
8. define OC - gravity (-9.81)
9. define BC- inlet (phase 2, 0,4kg/s, temp 380 C) (phase 1, 0 kg/s, temp 60 C) there is wall 1 and wall 01:shadows appear at edge between solid and luqiud, BC without outlet

10. solve-control solution-ok
11. solve initialize- inlet
12. adapt region-insert number of x/y max/min - adapt - mark
13. solve initialize - patch (phase 2, liquid , value=0) (mixture, solid, value 60 C) this i want to make theres no vapor inside the drum and int temp. of wall is 60 C
14. solve monitor residual - plot
15. iterate - time step size (1) number of TS (76000 s) max iteration/TS (2)
16. iterate

there're all the steps friends, but the result temperature of the wall is not as i expected, its about 250 C and thats should be around 350 C. Please tell me what i missed. is that because i used fluent 6 ? i really need your help

thank you very much

[Centurion2011]

do you have specific question or you want us to solve your problem

[chabib]

dear centurion2011

i just want to share my problem why i have different wall temperature from numerical result with measured result. i hope some one can explain to me. i write the steps because i thing there something wrong in my steps or something else. i am still learning using Fluent. sorry if my question too general or say something wrong in this forum

regards

[Centurion2011]

maybe you should start with steady solution and then progress toward unsteady case.

For more info on unsteady problems, go to following link

Hope this will help you a bit

[duri]

Originally Posted by chabib

10. solve-control solution-ok
11. solve initialize- inlet
12. adapt region-insert number of x/y max/min - adapt - mark

Since you used default solver settings. Check whether it is second order or higher. And don't use mesh adaption near boundary (if any), better to create a fine mesh than mesh adaption. k-epsilon turbulence model uses wall function which is not suitable for heat transfer applications try sst model.

[ghost82]

Originally Posted by chabib

15. iterate - time step size (1) number of TS (76000 s) max iteration/TS (2)

Are you sure you are getting convergence with only 2 iterations per time step?

Daniele