Dear users and experts, i am currently modeling combustion flow in small tubes. Would like to use a correlation to specify the heat transfer coefficient at the external wall. For nature convection over vertical cylinder, we have h=1.42[(T-T0)/L]^0.25, T is the average temperature, L is the length of the tube. My idea is very simple, firstly, sum up all the temperature on all faces on the wall. then devided by the number of faces. Following is my UDF code

#include "udf.h"

DEFINE_PROFILE(HTC, thread, index)

{ face_t f;

real T = 0.0;

int n = F_NNODES(f, thread)-1; /* Count of faces */

begin_f_loop(f, thread) /* loops over all faces in the thread passed in the DEFINE macro argument */

{

T = F_T(f, thread)+T; /* summation of temperature over all faces */

} end_f_loop(f, thread)

F_PROFILE(f, thread, index) = 1.42*(T/n-293.0)^0.25/(27E-3)^0.25;

/* 293.0 is the ambient temperature and 27E-3 is the length */

}

However this code cannot be interpreted in FLUENT. The error message is "syntax error", which really confused me a lot. I am looking forward to your reply and help. Thanks so much in advance.

Hi jonglee,

try this in your UDF

F_PROFILE(f, thread, index) = pow(1.42*(T/n-293.0),0.25)/pow((27E-3),0.25);

I hope it helps

andrea