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Orientation
Agenda for Week:
Monday
Solver-1

Tuesday
Solver-2

Wednesday
Gambit-1

Thursday
Gambit-2

Friday
1:1 Consult

Facilities
Lunches, Bathrooms, Designated Smoking Area, Visitor Parking, Visitor Badges

Training
Problem Setup
Creating the model: geometry and mesh generation Using the Solver: setup and execution

Establish contact with support staff Begin your own CFD project!
We recommend doing all Gambit and relevant Fluent tutorials first.
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Agenda (Day 1)
8:00-8:30 8:30-9:00 9:00-9:30 9:30-11:15 11:15-12:00 12:00-1:00 1:00-2:00 2:00-3:00 3:00-4:00 4:00-5:00 Introduction to Fluent Inc. Introduction to CFD Analysis Demonstration: Overview of the CFD Process Introductory Tutorial Solver Basics Lunch Boundary Conditions Tutorial Session Solver Settings Tutorial Session

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Agenda (Day 2)
8:00-9:15 9:15-10:30 10:30-11:15 11:15-12:00 12:00-1:00 1:00-2:00 2:00-3:00 3:00-4:00 4:00-5:00 Turbulence Modeling Tutorial Session Heat Transfer Modeling User Defined Functions Lunch Multiphase Modeling Reacting Flow Modeling Moving Zone Models Tutorial Session

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Technical Support
Eleven Business Teams
Automotive
Aero/Thermal Powertrain

Aerospace
Aircraft and Turbomachinery Space and Defense

Chemicals and Consumer products Electronics and Semiconductor Glass Plastics and Materials Healthcare and Water HVAC and Appliances Petroleum Power Generation

Each team has their own sales and support/consulting engineers Fluents User Services Center (USC) and Online Technical Support (OTS) portal created to enhance your access to technical support
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Fluent User Services Center

www.fluentusers.com
Please register today! Services Include
Release Information Download Updates Documentation Supported Platforms Defects/Workarounds Presentations Training Online Technical Support
Quick Reference Guide Overview and Demo via web based training
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Online Technical Support

Access from USC
Same Account as USC Services Include
Find Solutions Log a Support Request Monitor Status Automatic Updates

Web Based Training Module Available

ftp files to/from support

ftp to ftp.fluent.com log on as ftp and use email address for password cd to incoming/xxx or outgoing/xxx and put files in binary mode.
xxx = support engineer initials

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Web Based Trainings

Web based training courses available from our LearningCFD.com web site. Some courses are free, others have a nominal charge. Modules can be downloaded to your computer and viewed as many times as you like More modules are planned and will be available in the near future

http://learningcfd.com/login/online/index.htm
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User Group Meetings

Attend the annual UGM and:
meet with the users and staff of Fluent attend short-courses learn of other Fluent applications presented by users provide input to future development of software

Worldwide User Group Meetings:

USA (Dearborn, MI)
typ. Early-June

European Meetings
typ. Mid-September through early October

Asia-Pacific Meetings
typ. Mid-October through early November

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FLUENT 6.2
Fluent 6.2 applications: External/internal automotive flows and in-cylinder flows High speed aerodynamics Rocket flows Turbomachinery Reactor Vessels Cyclones Bubble Columns Mixing tanks Fluidized Beds Flow-induced noise prediction Dynamic Mesh many more
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Surface pressure distribution in an automotive engine cooling jacket.

Instantaneous solids concentration in a riser indicating uniform distribution of catalyst at the riser head.

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FIDAP Applications:

FIDAP
Example: Pulsatile flow in an artery with a compliant vein graft.

Polymer processing: nonNewtonian flow in extrusion dies Thin film coating flows Biomedical: oxygenators, blood pumps, deforming arteries Semiconductor crystal growth Other metal, glass, and chemical processing problems

Velocity contour plot

deforming artery rigid artery

initial mesh u=u(t), sinusoidal inlet velocity rigid wall compliant wall rigid wall 1-11

Time history plot of wall shear rateDeformations cannot be neglected!

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POLYFLOW
FEM solver for laminar, viscous flows for complex rheologies and free surface
POLYFLOW Applications:
Extrusion, coextrusion, die design Blow molding, thermoforming Film casting, glass sheet forming/stretching, fiber drawing Chemical reactions, foaming Viscoelastic flows (memory effects)
Inverse Die Design: Determines die geometry based upon desired extruded shape.

Requested part shape and calculated die lip shape for a rubber car door seal.

Blow molding simulation of a gas tank using the membrane element.

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IcePak
IcePak is focused on electronics

cooling design:
Cooling airflow, heat conduction, convection and radiation heat transfer

The user interface and automatic meshing are tailored for applications such as:
Cabinet design Fan placement Board-level design Heat sink evaluation Flow pathlines and temperature distribution in a fan-cooled computer cabinet.

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Airpak
Simplifies the design and analysis of ventilation systems Accurate, quick, and easy-to-use design tool that empowers designers and professionals, without extensive backgrounds in computer applications, to utilize the powers of advanced CFD tools Optimize your designs or pinpoint problems based on accurate predictions of airflow patterns, thermal conditions, comfort conditions, and/or contamination control effectiveness

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MixSim
MixSim is a specialized user interface that allows quick and easy set-up

of mixing tank simulations. The tank size, bottom shape, baffle configuration, number and type of impellers, etc. are specified directly. The mesh and complete problem definition are then automatically created. Other features include:
Impeller libraries from leading equipment manufacturers Transient sliding mesh, steady-state multiple reference frame models Non-Newtonian rheology

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FloWizard
Our first general purpose CFD product for non-specialists driven by FLUENT and Gambit . FloWizards focus is on ease of use and automation:
It is a highly-automated, first pass simulation tool for use in basic flow and heat transfer calculations. A Wizard-based interface guides the user through all the steps of a CFD analysis, from problem set-up to postprocessing. The user is insulated from specialized CFD parameters, such as discretization and turbulence model choices.

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Pre-processor: Gambit
A single, integrated pre-processor for CFD analysis.
Geometry creation Mesh generation Mesh quality examination Boundary zone assignment

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Pre-processor: TGrid
A pre-processor for tet/hybrid mesh generation. Useful when starting with triangular surface mesh.

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Documentation
Documentation for all products available at www.fluentusers.com Separate CD for each product (e.g., FLUENT 6, TGrid, etc.) containing all the manuals for that product. Two formats available:
HTML
for general viewing, searching, limited printing

Adobe Acrobat PDF

for high quality printing of one or many pages
Fluent 6.2 Documentation Web Page at www.fluentusers.com
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Training Evaluation
Evaluation forms handed out with training materials. Your feedback helps us improve our training materials and methods. Please turn-in your evaluations forms on Thursday before you leave.

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