studentFLUENT - Tutorial Library - Pipe

Pipe schematic.

The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate the setup and solution of a 3D turbulent fluid flow in a pipe.

The pipe networks are common in any engineering industry. It is important to know the development of a flow at the pipe entrance and pressure drop taking place along the pipe length. The flow of fluids in a pipe is widely studied fluid mechanics problem. The correlations for entry length and pressure drop are available in terms of flow Reynolds number.

In this tutorial you will learn how to:

• Read an existing mesh file in FLUENT
• Verify the grid for dimensions and quality.
• Add a new material from materials database.
• Define solver settings and perform iterations.
• Examine the results and compare them with experimental data.
• Visualize the flow field using animation tool.
• Control the view by reading in a file.

LINK TO DOWNLOAD » pipe.zip