Reply To: Simulation of a storage in a lake – Which tool should be used?

[toni.calabrese]

Dear Rob, sorry but I am little bit confuse and I would like to proceed by steps. The first goal of the project is to evaluate the thermal performance of the system. Basically at the beginning we do not care about the structure and the stress on the materials. Only the thermal performance (under stationary conditions) is important to us. We would like to optimize the structure of the storage (shape, insulation layers and thickness and so on) and try to find an optized structure that minimizes the thermal losses.

If this is the first goal, which kind of tool should I use? Fluent would be enough?