Hi Everyone,
I am new to solidworks. I need some help to do the following simulation.
I am trying to simulate a spray nozzle over a flat surface (100mm x 100mm). The nozzle of 5 mm diameter is streaming gas (60 deg C) at 100 SPL (Standard liters per min) over the flat surface. it is moving over the flat surface at 50mm/sec.
I want to measure the average temperate of the flat surface after 10 min.
I have done the fluid flow simulation of the nozzle with the flat surface at time one position. How can I import this result to motion study to get the temperature contour of the complete plate?
Hi Richard,
Like Amit says, any moving boundary isn't possible in Flow. The best approximation of this type of situation I've seen is to simulate a moving source as a series of sources in a straight line that you turn on and off with different time signals.
For example, if your nozzle is moving in the x direction, you might set up a series of pressure/flow sources that look like this:
You'd set up a pressure or flow source on each one, and by using the dependency functionality in each source, turn each one and then off on in turn at an appropriate rate to approximate the moving source. It's not perfect, but it's the best you'll be able to address in Flow Simulation, in my experience. The sources can be adjacent, but they can't overlap.