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June 7, 2016, 09:22 |
Error in Drag Coefficient for 3D sphere
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Pranjal Seth
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I am analysing flow around a 3D sphere, for non-Newtonian power law fluids.
I am supposed to study the drag coefficient for various Reynolds numbers. However, I am getting ambiguous values. I tried the process for Newtonian fluids as well, but I'm facing the same problem there as well. For eg., Cd for Re 30 should be around 2 for spheres, but I'm getting close to 9. Any idea what could be going wrong? Following are the details. Sphere has diameter d, and is placed centrally in a cylindrical domain having dia 15d, and length 66d. For the geometry, I made the sphere using Primitives. Froze it. Created a circle, and it extruded to get the cylinder. I generated the geometry, and then cut out the sphere using Body Operation. I generated the mess, and followed Fluent solver. Model is Viscous (laminar). The reference values are being computed from the inlet, and Area is the (pi)(d*d)/4. Now, this entire thing I've tried for various residuals, various fluids, and various Reynolds numbers. But my results are always wrong. Any clue what could be happening? |
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drag coefficients, error, fluent, non newtonian power law, sphere |
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