{"id":160017,"date":"2021-07-01T19:32:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-define-this-interface-in-ansys-fluent-with-thickness-or-without-thickness\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T17:53:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:53:29","slug":"how-to-define-this-interface-in-ansys-fluent-with-thickness-or-without-thickness","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-define-this-interface-in-ansys-fluent-with-thickness-or-without-thickness\/","title":{"rendered":"How to define this interface in Ansys Fluent (with thickness or without thickness)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p> I have an interface between a fluid circulating in an inner pipe and a phase change material circulating in outer&nbsp;pipe (it will be transformed from liquid to solid phase during the simulation by cooling it with the fluid of the inner pipe), can i ignore the thickness of the inner pipe to reduce meshing and put a shell conduction or this option of shell conduction is only used for fluid\/solid interface and when the phase change material goes to solid so there will be solid\/solid interface it wouldn&#039;t work ). <\/p>\n<p>Or can i just&nbsp;add a wall thickness without meshing or i should mesh it explicitly and make a coupled wall boundary condition in each of these two interfaces (fluid and inner wall of the inner wall \/phase change material and outer wall of the inner wall).<\/p>\n<p>another question, for the shell conduction, i read that i should have a conformal interface so that i can use it. Someone to confirm that please<\/p>\n<p>thank you<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedExternal embedImage\">\n<div class=\"embedExternal-content\">\n<a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/166\/ZX9LPKW4EEZY.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/166\/ZX9LPKW4EEZY.png\" alt=\"Captureghfg.PNG\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-160017","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"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":["2306"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_subscription":["244405"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["160017"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","203870","248512"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["8"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["184173"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["184173"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-02-15 17:53:29"]},"test":"mouna-rahalusherbrooke-ca"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/160017","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\/160017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}