Reply To: Multiple component coordinate systems to fluent for material properties

[Conor Leighton]

 

OK, I set the material properties as above – I have defined one material:



I have then tried to assign that material to each component using a journal file, stating the axis of rotation about which I would like the material to orient. The script has indeed applied the material and altered the coordinates for each cell:




However, the results clearly show that this hasn’t worked – it would appear that every cylinder has the cylindrical axis for thermal conductivity centred about the global origin, rather than around the coordinates specified in the solid zone rotation-axis origin.

Not quite sure what it is I am doing wrong – the only thing I can think of is that I have to create a new, independent material for every single cylinder and then alter the coordinates in the cyl-orthotropic panel – but this doesn’t really feel sensible?