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October 31, 2022 at 4:03 amJabirSubscriber
Hello,
I am trying to simulate the flow of R134a in a multiphase ejector with Lee model for evaporation. The liquid and vapour phases are setup using two different materials created with rgp tables made using the sustemcoupling and refprop. The simulation runs and the flow field seems realistic, though a weired error message is showing up from the initialization stage itself. Please see the images attached. I am using 8 processors and this error appears eight times at cell number 0. But I have checked the total enthalpy and it seems enthalpy of gaseous phase is always greater than that of liquid phase. Then how come latent heat become negative?
In time, printig this error message is getting slower and it slows down the entire simulation. If I increase the number of cores, it become more worse.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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October 31, 2022 at 7:42 amDrAmineAnsys Employee
Ensure that you set the phase change as mentioned in the documentation from "liquid" to "vapor".
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October 31, 2022 at 9:10 am
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October 31, 2022 at 9:28 amDrAmineAnsys Employee
I think my explanation was fine: phase change to be defined between liquid (from phase) to vapor (to phase). That is mentioned in the Fluent documentation.
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October 31, 2022 at 9:51 amJabirSubscriber
I still think your explanation is not clear, thats why I asked again. I belive you are refferring to the Fluent User guide/ Theory guide. Since I cannot go through the entire 5000+ pages today, I have read the section “14.7.5. Evaporation-Condensation Model” in theory guide and section “22.2.10.2.5. Evaporation-Condensation Mechanism” in the user guide. In my understanding what I setup is correct to what explained there.
I have set mixture model with phase-1 as r134a-vapour and phase-2 as r34a-liquid. The interaction between phases is modelled using the evaporation-condensation model. The materials are made using rgp tables created using fluent itself. I am getting an error stating latent heat is negative at cell zero on each computational node.
I believe its a bug in Fluent.
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October 31, 2022 at 10:28 amDrAmineAnsys Employee
Your phase change definition is wrong: it should be from phase-2 which is liquid to phase-1 which is vapor.
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October 31, 2022 at 10:29 amDrAmineAnsys Employee
It is not a bug in Fluent: that is how the Fluent Phase Change Structure is written. Is not my favorite but it is so and as such documented.
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October 31, 2022 at 11:49 amJabirSubscriber
Thanks for your help. I didnt know about such a constraint in Fluent.
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January 6, 2023 at 11:32 pmWiaam SaeedSubscriber
So If I wanted to model condensation from vapour to liquid, would I still have to select the phase interaction to go from liquid to vapour and select the "evaporation-condensation" option?
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January 9, 2023 at 7:26 amDrAmineAnsys Employee
Yes: from liquid to gas. If condensation is happening a negative phase change rate will be reported.
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