Modeling of phase change material freezing of water

- December 3, 2023 at 1:15 pm
  
  Ata Sabra
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  I am trying to model a phase change material. In order to do this I have to model the freezing or solidification of water and check if the temprature of water remain constant during the freezing/solidification.
  I saw an example here lesson 4: phase change and enthalpy. The following link: /courses/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Lesson-4-Phase-change-and-enthalpy.pdf.
  In this example they did a simulation of freezing of water with Ansys Mechanical as a thermal- transient analysis (not fluent!), however in all exmples and video tutorial I see on youtube, they use Ansys fluent to simulate a pcm- material.
  My question is:
  can I use for this model a thermal transient analysis (Ansys Mechanical) instead of using ansys fluent because it would be easier for me to work in Ansys mechanical. I tryed to do the simulation as it shown in the example (lesson 4 above) and it seems that the definition of enthalpy werent taken in considration. would you help me here please.
  
  Thank you in adavnced.
- December 4, 2023 at 2:55 pm
  
  dlooman
  Ansys Employee
  
  Duplicate. Replied to previous post.