Reply To: How to model solar dryer with Student Workbench?

[jcooper]

Hi Anthony:

Fluent might be easier to use if you are a beginner. I would suggest looking at a few Fluent start-to finish tutorials to get an idea of what to expect.  The tutorial below deals with radiation, which will be a factor in your case:

https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v242/en/flu_tg/flu_tg_headlamp_radiation_meshing.html

There are also a ton of Youtube videos online covering the different aspects of the Fluent heat transfer workflow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLuoFtTBqE

 

The Fluent Help Documentation also has additional tutorials with downloadable files that you can work through to get used to Fluent.