{"id":162569,"date":"2021-09-27T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T03:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/what-is-the-best-method-for-performing-an-energy-balance-in-fluent\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:23:36","slug":"what-is-the-best-method-for-performing-an-energy-balance-in-fluent","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/what-is-the-best-method-for-performing-an-energy-balance-in-fluent\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the best method for performing an energy balance in Fluent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>I have a simple laminar flow simulation setup in Fluent with heat transfer from hot walls to the cooler fluid. I would like to perform an energy balance on the simulation to validate the model. <\/p>\n<p>I have tried using the &quot;Total heat transfer rate&quot; under the &quot;Flux&quot; report option to calculate the heat transfer to all boundaries. Summing these does not add to zero, because it does not account for the temp rise of the fluid. <\/p>\n<p>Is there a simple way to complete this energy balance in Fluent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-162569","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-energy-balance-1","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-heat-transfer","topic-tag-totalheattransferrate-1"],"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":["2950"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_subscription":["245490"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["162569"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","171144"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["193172"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["193172"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-10-01 12:23:36"]},"test":"tpatter15"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/162569","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\/162569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}