{"id":364732,"date":"2024-04-29T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mass-flow-rate-in-cfd-post\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:47:35","slug":"mass-flow-rate-in-cfd-post","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mass-flow-rate-in-cfd-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass flow rate in CFD post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I ran a simulation in Icepak and I am post-processing the results in CFD post. I have air flowing through two compartments (left and right shown on the first picture) and I am trying to output the mass flow rate in each section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/29-04-2024-1714405066-mceclip0.png\" width=\"192\" height=\"310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/29-04-2024-1714405122-mceclip1.png\" width=\"263\" height=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>I created a plane and clipped it so that I have the left and right sides separated but when I try to output the mass flow rate using the function calculator, I get an error.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/29-04-2024-1714405611-mceclip2.png\"><\/p>\n<p>For now I am using the average velocity in each side for comparison purposes but I was wondering is there was a way to get the mass flow rate.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-364732","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-fluent","topic-tag-ansys-icepak","topic-tag-cfd-post","topic-tag-fluid-flow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["49550","39507"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.196.2.137"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2070"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["364732"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["39507","49550"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["365369"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["365369"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-05-03 10:16:36"]},"test":"97b26285be36cffb89250ea2490390f4a1c17239"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/364732","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\/364732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}