{"id":46284,"date":"2020-07-19T04:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T04:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/modelling-heat-flow-in-soil-using-ansys-fluent\/"},"modified":"2020-07-19T04:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T04:23:42","slug":"modelling-heat-flow-in-soil-using-ansys-fluent","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/modelling-heat-flow-in-soil-using-ansys-fluent\/","title":{"rendered":"Modelling Heat Flow in soil using Ansys Fluent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As part of my research I&#8217;m using <strong>Ansys Fluent<\/strong> to model :<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>1) Heat flow through compacted soil (clay) with an embedded ground heat exchanger<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>2) Heat flow through compacted soil (clay) without an embedded ground heat exchanger<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>For both above cases I simply need to obtain the resulting temperature contours. I would only be modelling heat flow through the soil medium and not water flow.&nbsp; Water flow will only occur inside the ground heat exchange pipe.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am new to Ansys Fluent and apologize if this is a very basic question:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Now, I have the required properties of the compacted soil (Density, thermal conductivity etc.) but I&#8217;m not sure if to model the compacted soil medium in Fluent as a &#8220;<strong>Porous<\/strong>&#8221; medium or simply a &#8220;<strong>Solid<\/strong>&#8221; medium.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read some papers on similar modelling approaches but I could not find a clear answer to this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Hence, any advice on the above matter would be much appreciated.Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-46284","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["18467"],"_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"],"_btv_view_count":["563"],"_bbp_subscription":["253866","216824"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["46284"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","179749","216824"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["291127"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["291127"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-06-30 22:31:16"]},"test":"vsjay3"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/46284","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\/46284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}