{"id":458115,"date":"2026-05-13T20:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-optislang-with-ansys-fluent-inside-of-workbench\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:26:15","slug":"ansys-optislang-with-ansys-fluent-inside-of-workbench","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-optislang-with-ansys-fluent-inside-of-workbench\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSYS Optislang with ANSYS Fluent inside of Workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hello all!&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am doing a research project for my Master&#8217;s Degree for optimizing a water cooled heat sink.&nbsp; I am using Fluent with the Fluent meshing inside of ANSYS mechanical.&nbsp; When I try to run my optimization loop in Optislang standalone, the run always stops at the Meshing step and just sits there.&nbsp; &nbsp;From doing some research online this appears that it may be because Fluent is asking for some input but I am running it in the background and there is no way to see this prompt.&nbsp; &nbsp; Does anyone have any pointers on how to do this design loop?&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-458115","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-fluent-ansys-1","topic-tag-optimization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_topic_id":["458115"],"_bbp_subscription":["687259","199"],"_bbp_author_ip":["170.85.72.180"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["458165"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["458165"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2026-05-14 14:55:45"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["687259","199"],"_btv_view_count":["65"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"rts144psu-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/458115","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\/458115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}