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[amahar3]

Hi. I wanted to do the simulation of bonding two small polymer plates by heating the plates near the glass transition temperature and applying external pressure from all sides. The simulation also need to show air bubbles entrapped between the bonding interfaces because of insufficient applied pressure. Is it possible to do this simulation in ansys? Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

[Rahul]

Hello Anish,

One poosbile solution could be to solve fluid part in fluent and solid part in Mechanical and solve it as a coupled analysis.

Please refer users guide to know variables available for system coupling and settings : 42.4. Variables Available for System Coupling (ansys.com) and 42.5. System Coupling Related Settings in Fluent (ansys.com).

Please refer following tutorials to learn the workflow:

System Coupling Tutorials (ansys.com)
Analyzing FSI with ANSYS Fluent and Mechanical - Part I (youtube.com)
Analyzing FSI with ANSYS Fluent and Mechanical - Part II (youtube.com)

Hope this helps!

[amahar3]

Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will go through your provided links.