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There will obviously be other inlets and\/or outlets present, but this is just linking two of them together.  If you set a flow rate on the Inlet, you can then set the mass flow leaving the outlet  boundary using an expression.  An example would be:  Inlet = 5 m\/s Outlet = Sum(MassFlow, GetBoundary(&#8220;@inlet&#8221;), &#8220;Simple&#8221;)  Here you are setting the outlet mass flow to be equal to the Inlet mass flow for that particular boundary pairing  There are other useful expressions in the AIM Manual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-157169","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-aim","topic-tag-boundary-conditions","topic-tag-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So for example could you supply a flow rate at an inlet and have an outlet which extracted the same mass flow that was entering at that inlet? Yes this is possible. 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