{"id":33416,"date":"2019-02-21T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-fluent-reversed-flow-centrifugal-pump\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:55:04","slug":"ansys-fluent-reversed-flow-centrifugal-pump","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-fluent-reversed-flow-centrifugal-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSYS Fluent Reversed Flow- Centrifugal Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am currently trying to model a centrifugal pump with a rotating impeller using a steady state MRF region but seem to keep getting reversed flow\/nonconvergence. The fluid is solely driven by the impeller (i.e. no inlet velocity).&nbsp; Here is a link to my old post that has more details about my project: \/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-turbulent-flow-centrifugal-pump-non-convergence-and-floating-point-error\/<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are my settings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Pressure based, steady<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>liquid: water<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>2 pressure outlets: 0 atm<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>1 pressure inlet: 0 atm<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>MRF (rotating region): speed 200 rpm<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(I also checked the axis of rotation and I believe it is correct)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/c3031470-aeb1-421a-9963-a9d20110c29d\/1a66f5d3-eec9-4c2b-ae4f-a9fb01159b27_velocity.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-33416","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["5588"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["269"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["33416"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["161689"],"_bbp_voice_count":["1"],"_bbp_reply_count":["0"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["0"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["33416"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-02-21 16:55:04"]},"test":"lianapolikaitis"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/33416","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\/33416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}