TryItNow!

Step by Step Walkthrough: Spoiler Support

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TryItNow!

Step by Step Walkthrough: Spoiler Support

ANSYS designed this TryItNow! experience to give you quick access to
ANSYS AIM simulations on the cloud. This AIM demonstration shows the
air flow over an automotive rear spoiler and the resulting stresses in the
spoiler support. The simulation demonstrates the ease of setting up and
solving a multiphysics simulation.
This geometry has been processed in SpaceClaim to use half the
symmetric part and add a fluid flow enclosure around the structure.

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Select Fluid-Structure Interaction Template

Select the Fluid-Structure

Interaction Template from the
Study menu in AIM

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Modify Template Settings

1. Turn off structural contact

detection. This is more efficient
when there is only one structural
part.
2. Turn on configuration to more
easily work with separate solid
and fluid parts.
3. Select Create Simulation
Process and select the geometry
file spoiler.scdoc to execute the
template.

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Task Based Workflow

The necessary
simulation tasks
are created, and
the geometry
loaded.

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Suppress the solid part in the Flow simulation

2. Selection filters enable

you to switch between
selecting points, lines,
surfaces or bodies. Turn on
the Body selection filter.

3. Left-click to select
the spoiler body.

1. Select the
Configuration task for
the Flow simulation.

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4. Right-click and add

a Suppress Control to
the body.

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5. Right-click and
update the
configuration.

Specify Mesh Inflation

3. Use
Automatically
Defined to select all
unlabeled surfaces

1. Select the
Mesh task

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2. Right-click
and use the
Fix menu to
navigate to
Inflation 1

Generate and Review Mesh

Right-click to
Generate Mesh and
review the result.

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The Physics Panel

Select the Flow Task and
review the physics panel. The
initial settings are automated
based on the selected
template. In each section you
can review the setup and
modify it based on your own
requirements.
The material assignments,
physics options and solver
options can all be reviewed.

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Specify Inlet conditions

2. Select the Inlet

face.
3. Right-click and
Add an Inlet
Boundary
Condition.

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1. Activate the Face

selection filter.

4. Specify inlet velocity

of 80 mile/hr (36 m/s).

Specify Outlet Boundary

1. Select the Outlet

face.

2. Right-click and
Add an Outlet
Boundary
Condition.
3. Specify the outlet
Pressure as 0 Pa.
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Specify Far Field Boundary

1. Using Ctrl-left
click, select the two
far field faces.

2. Right-click and
Add an Opening
boundary
condition.

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3. Specify an entrainment
pressure of 0 Pa.

Specify Symmetry Boundary

2. Right-click and
Add a Symmetry
boundary condition.
1. Select the
Symmetry face.

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Specify Wall Boundary

Right-click and a add

Wall boundary
condition.
(AIM will automatically
select all surfaces
without a boundary
condition specification
for the wall.)

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Optional, Increase number of Solver processes

From the Flow physics

panel, navigate to
Solver Options/Solver
Settings/Launch
Controls, and set the
number of processes.
Hit Apply when done.

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AIM always runs in

parallel, using 2
processes by default.
You can accelerate
solution time by
increasing the number
of processes (to a
maximum of 6 for Try It
Now).

Update Flow solution

Right-click on the
Flow task and
select Update to
execute solution.

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The Solution
Quality tab can be
used to monitor
convergence. This
case defaults to
moderate
convergence
sufficient for
demonstration
purposes.

Visualize Pressure Field

3. Select the Wall from

the Location dropdown, and Pressure
for the Variable.
2. Right-click and add
a Contour Result.

4. Right-click and
evaluate the Result.

1. Select the Results

task for the Flow
simulation.

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Suppress the flow volume in the Structural simulation

2. Turn on the Body selection

filter.
3. Left-click to select
the flow volume body.

4. Right-click and add

a Suppress Control to
the body.

1. Select the
Configuration task for
the Structural
simulation.
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5. Right-click and
update the
configuration.

Specify Structural Support

1. Ensure the Face

selection filter is
active.
3. Select the
support bottom
face.
4. Right-click and
add a Support
Boundary Condition

2. Select the
Structural Task
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Specify symmetry displacement condition

1. Select the spoiler

mid face.

2. Right-click and
add a Displacement
Boundary Condition

3. Change the
definition to Normal
to boundary, and
set a 0 displacement.

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Specify surfaces for flow pressure load

3. Hit the +
button to add the
selection as the
target of the
pressure load.
2. Using Shift-Left
Mouse, box select
all the structural
faces.
1. Select the
Physics Coupling
object from the Fix
menu.
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Update Results (and Structural solution)

Right-click the
Structural Results task,
and select Update to
generate the mesh,
execute the solution,
and calculate results.

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Post-process Equivalent Stress Results

1. Select the
Results task, and
use the Search
and Select bar to
pick the
Equivalent Stress
Result.

2. Right-click to
animate the results.

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Step by Step Walkthrough: Spoiler Support

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