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How to do Porous Media modelling for metal foam on PV Thermal System?

- February 9, 2026 at 1:00 pm
  
  mattindrawijaya
  Subscriber
  
  Hello, I am new to porous media modeling in ANSYS Fluent. Could anyone please explain the modeling of a metal foam as a porous media in a PV thermal (PV/T) system, starting from geometry creation, meshing, cell zone set up,and boundary conditions set up?
  I use the copper metal foam layered between copper absorber and PCM
  Thank you.
- February 9, 2026 at 2:58 pm
  
  Essence
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hello,
  For the starters, you can refer the following Ansys tutorial links.
  https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v252/en/flu_tg/flu_tg_tut_catalytic_converter.html
  https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v252/en/flu_tg/flu_tg_tut_catalytic_converter_Topology.html
  - March 4, 2026 at 8:18 am
    
    mattindrawijaya
    Subscriber
    
    Hi, thank you for the help, but i have another problem that i can not open the links you gave me since i don't have the account number (customer number), is there any alternative for this solution? Thank you
- March 4, 2026 at 9:29 am
  
  Rob
  Forum Moderator
  
  Try
  https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/public/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v252/en/flu_tg/flu_tg_tut_catalytic_converter.html
  https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/public/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v252/en/flu_tg/flu_tg_tut_catalytic_converter_Topology.html

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