{"id":159450,"date":"2021-06-13T20:13:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T20:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-create-and-identify-ventilation-inlets-and-outlets-in-fluent\/"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:01:59","slug":"how-to-create-and-identify-ventilation-inlets-and-outlets-in-fluent","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-create-and-identify-ventilation-inlets-and-outlets-in-fluent\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create and identify ventilation inlets and outlets in fluent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>I am trying to create two inlets and two outlets for ventilation in two separate storage containers. I made holes in the Solidworks model for the inlets and outlets and imported this into ansys directly. <\/p>\n<p>I tried to create named selections for the inlets and outlets in Ansys meshing, which I was able to do after sketching a surface on the cover of each inlet and outlet since I could not select the hole (see image below). <\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the named selections I created do not populate in fluent when I complete &#039;setup,&#039; and I have tried updating upstream data and closing\/reopening all applications. <\/p>\n<p>My questions are: (1) how can I get my named selections to populate in fluent so I can give them inlet and outlet characteristics? and (2) am I adding the ventilation properly?<\/p>\n<p>Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedExternal embedImage\">\n<div class=\"embedExternal-content\">\n<a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/983\/R6AQFCHAE3JZ.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/983\/R6AQFCHAE3JZ.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-06-13 at 3.39.26 PM.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-159450","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-fluent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_old_reply_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_reply_anonymous_id":["false"],"_btv_view_count":["3013"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_subscription":["242694"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["159450"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27790"],"_bbp_engagement":["25","118","202614"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["182110"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["182110"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-06-15 13:01:59"]},"test":"josh-cc-ipadgmail-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}