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Performing Your First Ansys Fluent Mixing Tank Simulation

Course Overview

Stirred tank mixing is a process used across many industries, including the pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical industries, chemical processing, food processing, oil and gas, and mineral processing.  Understanding mixing tank performance and behavior is important for design, scale-up, optimization and troubleshooting.  Simulation can provide valuable insight in these areas, including:

  • Understanding mixing characteristics: flow visualization, residence and blend time.
  • Prediction of shear rate, shear history and mass transfer rates.
  • Prediction of gas hold up.

While there are numerous mixing tank applications involving gas-liquid or gas-solid flows that can be simulated using Ansys Fluent, the starting point to understanding how to set up and solve these problems is learning how to calculate the flow for a single-phase liquid, and this is what you will learn how to do in this course.

Prerequisites

Teaching Method

This is a self-paced course that will teach you how to import a CAD model of a mixing tank into Ansys Fluent, generate a mesh using the Watertight Geometry guided meshing workflow, calculate the flow field and post-process the results in the Ansys Fluent single-window user environment.

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Learning Outcome

Following completion of the course, you will be able to

  • Generate a mesh suitable for mixing tank simulations.
  • Define boundary conditions and solver inputs for impeller motion.
  • Monitor relevant mixing tank parameters such as impeller torque and average dissipation rate.
  • Visualize flow patterns, shear rate and dissipation rate using tools such as contour plots and iso-surfaces to gain insight to tank mixing characteristics.

 Available Dates

Currently, no training dates available

Learning Options

Training materials for this course are available with a Ansys Learning Hub Subscription. 

Self-paced Learning 

Complete a class on your own schedule at your own pace. Scope is equivalent to Instructor led classes. Includes video lecture, workshops and input files. All our Self-Paced video courses are only available with an Ansys Learning Hub subscription.

Agenda

This is a self-paced course that will teach you how to import a CAD model of a mixing tank into Ansys Fluent, generate a mesh using the Watertight Geometry guided meshing workflow, calculate the flow field and post-process the results in the Ansys Fluent single-window user environment.

  • Module 01 – Generating the Mesh
  • Module 02 – Setting up the Problem
  • Module 03 – Post-Process the Results in Solution Mode

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