Reply To: Helical Coil Heat Transfer

[peteroznewman]

Thanks Raef.

The above model was in response to a student who asked how to create a mesh for a helical coil to do convective heat transfer. Upon further correspondence, I learned his project was to build skill in CFD by reproducing a model described in a research paper. 

After I read that paper, I understood that rather than being given the convective heat transfer coefficient, which I needed in the above model as an input, the purpose was to build a CFD model to calculate the convective heat transfer coefficient as a result from the simulation. This was something that interested me also.

Cheers,
Peter