Fluent Academic Product Tutorials

ANSYS, Inc.'s FLUENT software product has been employed in both undergraduate and graduate level engineering classes for decades. The generalized FLUENT solver allows faculty to teach CFD theory across a wide variety of disciplines, while taking advantage of existing pre- and post-processing utilities. This allows more time for students to learn fundamentals and theory.

The following FLUENT Teaching & FLUENT Research compatible tutorials are available to familiarize new users with setting up, solving, and post-processing CFD problems. These tutorials expose the user to a wide range of physical models and multiphysics. The tutorials use simplified geometry & and relatively coarse mesh discretization for quick & easy set up & solution.

Note that additional tutorials are available to customers registered on the Fluent User Services Center. ANSYS Inc. also provides a range of commercial grade CFD training courses at additional cost.

Tutorials:

Cavity - 2D laminar fluid flow for a lid-driven cavity.
Manifold - Turbulent flow in a simple intake manifold.
Plate -2D laminar fluid flow over a flat plate.
Pipe - 3D turbulent fluid flow in a pipe.
Airfoil - External compressible flow.
Cylinder - Unsteady flow past a circular cylinder with vortex shedding.
Nozzle - Axisymmetric fluid flow through a nozzle.
Annulus - 3D turbulent flow of a non-Newtonian fluid.
Mixing tank - 3D turbulent fluid flow for periodic section of a mixing tank.
Wave tank - 2D laminar fluid flow in a tank with oscillating motion of a wall.
Ohmic heater - User Defined Scalars (UDS) & User Defined Memories (UDM) for modeling the electric resistive heating of fluids.
Spark Ignition (SI) engine - 2D, four stroke, spark-ignition engine with port injection.
CVD - Tansport model for simulating the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesis of carbon nanotubes.

Mesh Files:

The above tutorials include mesh files, however both FLUENT Research & FLUENT Teaching products include GAMBIT & TGrid preprocessors which can be used to create geometry & meshes. FLUENT Research & FLUENT Teaching can also import meshes from other preprocessors that are supported by FLUENT 6, such as ANSYS ICEM CFD.

Airfoil - Nine 2D airfoils with unity chord length.
Contraction - Several 2D axisymmetric domains with a sudden contraction.
Diffuser - 2D axisymmetric diffusers (half-angles from 10 to 60 degrees).
Elbow - Five 3D elbows from 30 - 180 degrees.
Expansion - Several 2D axisymmetric domains with expansion ratios of 1.5 to 5.
Junction - Several 2D Y-junctions (one inlet and two outlets, junction angles from 30 to 90 degrees).
Nozzle - 2D axisymmetric converging-diverging nozzle profiles (parabolic wall curvature).