{"id":383400,"date":"2024-09-21T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/symmetry-condition-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T13:06:10","slug":"symmetry-condition-2","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/symmetry-condition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"symmetry condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;hello, everybody,&lt;br&gt;I&#8217;m working on Ansys Fluent CFD to simulate a solar (water- air) collector.&lt;br&gt;In the simulation, I divided the collector into two equal parts to simulate one-half of the collector because the second half will behave like the first one. So, I define &#8220;Symmetry wall&#8221; as a named selection in the mesh.&lt;br&gt;My question is, will I do the right simulation and the results be the same for the second half? Or do <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/21-09-2024-1726923953-11.png\" alt=\"\" \/>I have to simulate the whole collector?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I really appreciate any help you can provide.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/21-09-2024-1726923888-22.png\" alt=\"\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-383400","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":["193.225.62.187"],"_btv_view_count":["144"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_subscription":["43660","199"],"_edit_last":["43660"],"_bbp_revision_log":["a:1:{i:383401;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:43660;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}}"],"_bbp_topic_id":["383400"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","43660"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["6"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["386895"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["386895"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-09-25 08:33:57"]},"test":"hasan-mustafa-moayadstudent-uni-miskolc-hu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/383400","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/383400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383401,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/383400\/revisions\/383401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}