Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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mst31
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Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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Hello!
I try simulate natural convection in heat sink. For it I created project using heat and flow equtions in Elmer. The project consists of heat sink, transistors and air cube - picture is below.
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Heat equations is deleted for to debug flow equation. But Elmer prints warnings many times: "WARNING:: ListFind: Requested property: [Viscosity], not found" and solve is not converged. If I remove all solids then all works correctrly.
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How I understood, elements of solid is used in flow equation and matrix become unconditional. How can I do that Elmer doesn't take into account elements of solid in flow equation? Whether it is possible?

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Re: Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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Can you post your FreeCAD-file?
right-click on gmsh in model-tree, choose "Clear Mesh" to reduce file size.
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Re: Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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Here is project file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SzFhba ... sp=sharing
I can not attach it so I upload to Google drive.
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Re: Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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I can run your model, get the same viscosity error too. Solver runs and runs....
But in sif the viscosity is correct assigned to body 24, the fluid domain.
The mesh is far too rough, but when using a finer mesh (I played with snappyhexmesh from openfoam)
to fill the 3 mm gaps between the radiators, I get more than 3,6 mio cells. Even when using a 1/2 model.
Which makes your model very hard to debug...long runtime...
I am not very familiar with Elmer multiphysics, so I will try to make an openfoam calculation with cfdof-wb.
Lets see how this works...
Regards Thomas
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mst31
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Re: Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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Thank you for answer!
Does cfdof-wb support heat transfer with flow?
I also try to set manually in generated sif-file viscosity equal 0 for all solid materials. Now solve is converged.
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Re: Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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See features of cfdof-workbench here:
https://github.com/jaheyns/CfdOF

If you are interested in CFD, you should give it a try :mrgreen:
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Re: Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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Quick and dirty with cfdof-workbench, solver buoyantPimpleFoam.
Done with
bluecfd 2020-1
https://bluecfd.github.io/Core/Downloads/
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Re: Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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Thank you for example! I'm impressed by this, I will try this workbench)
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Re: Heat and flow equations in Elmer problem

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As for the problem. I solved it. In generated sif-file should be removed Navie-Stokes equation from Solid equations.
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Equation 1
  Active Solvers(3) = Integer 2 1 3
  Convection = String "Computed"
End
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Equation 1
  Active Solvers(2) = Integer 2 3
  Convection = String "Computed"
End
where Navie-Stokes solver has number 1.
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