{"id":161591,"date":"2023-01-25T07:16:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/i-am-using-the-fluent-fan-model-and-i-see-no-way-to-enter-my-fan-curve-except-for-point-by-point-and-there-is-no-way-to-verify-or-plot-the-points-i-have-entered-also-the-units-are-not-typical-to-a\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:35:33","slug":"i-am-using-the-fluent-fan-model-and-i-see-no-way-to-enter-my-fan-curve-except-for-point-by-point-and-there-is-no-way-to-verify-or-plot-the-points-i-have-entered-also-the-units-are-not-typical-to-a","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/i-am-using-the-fluent-fan-model-and-i-see-no-way-to-enter-my-fan-curve-except-for-point-by-point-and-there-is-no-way-to-verify-or-plot-the-points-i-have-entered-also-the-units-are-not-typical-to-a\/","title":{"rendered":"I am using the Fluent fan model and I see no way to enter my fan curve except for point-by-point, and there is no way to verify or plot the points I have entered.  Also, the units are not typical to a fan curve &#8211; they are in m\/s rather than CFM  Is there a way in Fluent to simulate a fan and just read in the fan curve as CFM\/Pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2D fan model is limited to Pressure\/velocity inputs and is generally intended for more simplified representations of fans. You can check the inputs to the fan curve using the procedure outlined in Solution 2039208.  To supply a CFM\/Pressure fan curve as input, use the more sophisticated 3D fan model, described in the link below  https:\/\/ansyshelp.ansys.com\/account\/secured?returnurl=\/Views\/Secured\/corp\/v191\/flu_ug\/flu_ug_sec_bc_3d_fan.html?q=fan model   The inputs to the 3D fan model allow the reading of a fan curve with pressure as a function of volumetric flowrate.  The format is:  cell zone id 17!CELL_ID Pressure(Pa)Flowrate(m3\/s) -324.01.255 -215.01.162 -109.01.032  0.0  0.997  63.00.913 105.00.862 302.00.584 394.00.492 406.00.432 443.00.365<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-161591","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-19-2","topic-tag-compressible-flow","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-modeling-setup-advice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["1-24-2023  20:20:14"],"_btv_view_count":["2229"],"siebel_km_number":["2056343"],"product_version":["19.2"],"km_published_date":["2018-09-11T00:18:52.000Z"],"family":["Fluid Dynamics"],"application_name":["FLUENT"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/161591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}