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[GeunYong Choi]

 

Hello, I am a student conducting research on nuclear engineering. I am studying how the volume of graphite increases when irradiated, and how this affects the speed or pressure of the coolant within the reactor. Is there a way to model the swelling of graphite in the ANSYS Fluent program?

[Rob]

In theory you can use the moving mesh functions to reduce the flow channel size. However, do you need to model the mesh motion or can you just run flow over the deformed geometry, and create that in CAD or scan a real object?