{"id":242132,"date":"2022-11-27T01:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T01:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/velocity-contours-are-showing-zero-velocity-for-periodic-geometry\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T02:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T02:05:20","slug":"velocity-contours-are-showing-zero-velocity-for-periodic-geometry","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/velocity-contours-are-showing-zero-velocity-for-periodic-geometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Velocity contours are showing zero velocity for periodic geometry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/27-11-2022-1669514582-D4E68F17-E1C9-4C5A-8A8E-CC1C914469D2.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/27-11-2022-1669514620-4DA373E0-FA0E-4F4F-B5CA-A8A6F04A6998.jpeg\" alt=\"\">I am trying to model a 2D tubes bundles (see figure) by modelling a periodic portion of the geometry. I added the symmetry\/periodic boundary conditions and I define the pressure gradient (1e-5 Pa) to drive the flow. The resulting velocity contours I am getting are zero, but when i switch off &#8220;node&#8221; values i get banded velocity contours (smooth contours option is greyed out). Am i doing something wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-242132","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-fluent-cfd-ansys-1","topic-tag-cfd-post","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-Periodicboundarycondition-1","topic-tag-velocity-contours-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["268905","199"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.220.96.180"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1130"],"_edit_lock":["1669514509:198349"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["242132"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","268905"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["242374"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["242374"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-11-29 16:38:26"]},"test":"m_y_comwindowslive-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/242132","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\/242132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}