Chapter 4

ANSYS Polyflow - Part B

Introduction to
ANSYS Polyflow
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O
O solver

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To run the Polyflow simulation

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Running
R
i POLYFLOW
(Listing Viewer)

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Running POLYFLOW

POLYFLOW generates several results files for different

purposes once the problem is solved.

Results file (with res extension by default)

This contains the nodal variables of the unknown fields in
ASCII format. This file cannot be used for post-processing
purposes.
p
p
It is used to restart a calculation from a p
previous
simulation result.

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Mesh file
msh
Input
p

Data file
dat
Input

POLYFLOW

Output

Results
R
lt file
fil
res
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Output

Listing
Li
ti file
fil
ListingFile
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Output

CFX-Post file cfx.res

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M h file
Mesh
fil
Input
p

D t fil
Data
file
Input

Old results
lt file
fil res
Input

POLYFLOW

Output

Results file res_2

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Output

Listing file
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The details of the simulation are stored in the

listing file :
Banner
Topological data
Fields
Problems to be solved
Boundary conditions defined
Solver
S
details (polydiag)
(
)

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Listing file: problems

Stream
Function
Navier-Stokes

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Inflow

Normals
Kinematic
condition

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Flow rate as postprocessor for all
boundaries
Viscosity as postprocessor

Shear-rate postprocessor

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Solver

Solver details include:

Names of the problems solved
Type of solver
Convergence
g
(divergence)
(
g
) message
g for each iteration
Convergence (divergence) of the solution

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Solver
There are three solver blocks in the listing file.
Preprocessor
The first block calculates the fully-developed velocity
profile at the inflow as well as the normals along the free
surface.
F.E.M.Task 1
The second block computes the main flow (taking the
result of the 1D calculation as a boundary condition along
the inlet) and the location of the free surface.
surface
Post--Processor
Post
The third block computes the stream function, taking the
velocity field as the input data.
data
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Solver

Pre-processor
FEM task 1
Post-processor flow rates

Post-processor

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Polydiag

Polydiag
y g is the
POLYFLOW module to
analyze the convergence
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