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Glass furnace modeling spans combustion, melting, and both turbulent and laminar flow — physics that rarely suit a single Ansys Fluent® fluid simulation software's solve. This tutorial shows how to prepare the air and glass domains as separate simulations with settings calibrated for each, then solve them simultaneously while exchanging thermal boundary conditions at the interface using System Coupling. You'll configure interfaces and data transfers, then run the coupled analysis in Ansys Workbench™ simulation integration platform, the standalone GUI, or from the command line.
Learning Outcomes:
Following completion of this tutorial, you will be able to:
- Explain why modeling all glass furnace physics in a single Fluent solve is problematic, including model incompatibilities such as FGM combustion with multiphase models.
- Describe the System Coupling strategy of separating the air and glass domains into independently calibrated simulations coupled at their shared interface.
- Review and prepare uncoupled initial condition solutions in both domains to initialize the coupled analysis.
- Configure the top port and top refiner interface walls to use the "via System Coupling" thermal condition and set the iteration count for data exchange.
- Define analysis settings, coupling interfaces, and data transfers for temperature and heat flow between participants.
- Execute the coupled solve using any of the three workflows — Workbench, standalone GUI, or command line.
- Apply parallel and partitioning controls to allocate cores across participants, including submission to a cluster job scheduler.
Please note: These training materials were developed and tested in the 2020R2 release.
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