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Purpose
The purpose of this tutorial is to provide guidelines for the creation, setup, and solution
procedure to solve the flow around a small submarine in a given time frame using Moving
Deforming Meshes (MDM).
In this tutorial you will learn how to:
• Import the geometry, create the required MDM domain and surface mesh using
GAMBIT.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with the FLUENT and GAMBIT user interface. It
also assumes that you have a good understanding of the basic setup and solution procedures.
This tutorial does not cover the mechanics of using the MDM model, but the focuses on
setting up problem for the submarine and solving it. If you have not used the MDM model
before, Chapter 10: Modeling Flows in Moving and Deforming Zones in FLUENT 6.2 User’s
Guide will provide you the necessary information.
Problem Description
This tutorial considers a simplified 2D model of a model scale (9 m) submarine advancing
at constant speed. An ASDS approaches this submarine along a prescribed attitude and
path. The tutorial case is setup to understand the flow field, forces, and moments acting
on the large submarine and the ASDS, while they dock.
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(b) Move the rectangular face (face.8), by 10 units in the X direction and by 30
units in the Y direction.
4. Split the parabolic face (face.7) with the rectangular face (face.8).
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5. Subtract the two submarine faces (face.1 and face.4) from the inner rectangular
face (face.8).
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5. Mesh the parabolic face using Tri/Pave meshing scheme and retain the other default
parameters.
Figure 1: Mesh
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Step 5: Models
First get a steady state solution, which will serve as an initial solution for the unsteady
MDM case.
Step 6: Materials
Define −→Materials...
1. Click Fluent Database... in the Materials panel to open Fluent Database Materials panel.
(a) Under Fluent Fluid Materials, select water-liquid (h2o<l>).
(b) Click Copy and close the Fluent Database Materials panel.
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1. For stationary and deforming fluid zones specify the Material Name as water-liquid.
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Step 8: Solution
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transient-table file name []’’ velnew.prof
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(a) Specify a value of 0.5 for Time Step Size and a value of 100 for Number of Time
Steps.
(b) Click Preview.
You can see how FLUENT restructures the mesh after every time step.
7. Read the previously saved case and data files, sub-mdm-setup.cas.gz and
sub-mdm-setup.dat.gz .
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