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Wrong and unexpected value of pressure contours in CFD.

    • Ananth Narayan
      Subscriber

      Hello everyone,


       


                               I am performing a study on projectile with the effect of suppressors. But when I apply the pressure value as inlet and view the contours I get different (extremely large) that I have given. I will provide the steps which I have performed.


       


      1. I have made mesh and named selection for pressure inlet, pressure outlet and bullet_wall.


      2. The viscous model is K-epsilon, scalable wall function.


      3. On boundary condition, I have applied a pressure inlet value as a UDF (which was compiled and loaded).


      Pressure Inlet


       


      4. Also left Pressure outlet as default one. Question: When I leave Guage pressure as 0 pascals, does it mean the outlet wall is of atmospheric pressure..


      Pressure Outlet


       


      5. Then choose smoothing and remeshing; 6 DOF with one degree translation. Also, dynamic mesh zones has been defined. (No problem with dynamic mesh, it worked as I needed).



      6. Hybrid Initialization has been done and patched the whole region with pressure of 1.01e5 Pascal .



      7. But when I open pressure contours I get to see that maximum pressure is 9.38 e9  pascals (But I guess it should be 3.75e8 Pa) but I cannot understand what's going on.


       


      Function governing the Pressure is 15000000*(t-5)*(t-5).


       


       


      I think I making mistakes in pressure inlets and outlet. I have also included schematic of analysis model.



       


       

    • Amine Ben Hadj Ali
      Ansys Employee
      Zero gauge pressure means the boundary is at the provides reference pressure.

      What is the value of total pressure and static pressure at inlet after one second?
    • Amine Ben Hadj Ali
      Ansys Employee
      Reported by Fluent or even after two tine steps.
    • Ananth Narayan
      Subscriber

      The simulation is about to take place within almost 0.06 seconds or so. Even after running after few cases, I get run time exception. Also patching the region and view the pressure region via contours doesn't match. Like when I choose the whole domain with pressure of 1.1e5 Pa I get values:


       



       



       


      The blue area depicts the atmospheric pressure but the red region is too high. According to UDF I provided, the initial pressure should be 3750e5 Pa but it is greater than that at inner region almost 3 times greater. Is anything wrong. Also have I entered correct pressure value as provided in schematic image.

    • Amine Ben Hadj Ali
      Ansys Employee
      Can you show with node values off and report the values I asked for.
    • Ananth Narayan
      Subscriber

      I am not sure what you are asking for. How to obtain the one you asked for?

    • Amine Ben Hadj Ali
      Ansys Employee
      Surface integral of pressure at inlet. Contour plot of pressure with node values disabled.
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