I am trying to animate a flow that is accerating within a pipe due to external electromagnetic forces. I know that solidworks cannot simulate this, but I need to make a video demonstrating this acceleration of a gas through a pipe. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks
what do you want to show in the video?
your best bet would probably be to model a few spheres or arrows and the animate them using solidworks animator. with a path mate, you can mate them to the path and make it look like it follows the path you think they will take.
if you want to use flow to develop the animation, you'll have to figure out a way to accelerate the flow without the electromagnetic forces. You might be able to do something with some moving walls and some inlet flow rates.
Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a shot. Do you think that it would be possible to simulate this by using two different flow velocities for the inlet and outlet?
Valid setups are pressure pressure or flow and pressure. So you need something internally to accelerate the flow like a moving wall or another inlet maybe.
Hi Jared, could you please explain a bit more how to create a path to simulate the flow, I am trying to do the same job for my school as the guy who asked you that. thank you.
check out pathmate
what do you want to show in the video?
your best bet would probably be to model a few spheres or arrows and the animate them using solidworks animator. with a path mate, you can mate them to the path and make it look like it follows the path you think they will take.
if you want to use flow to develop the animation, you'll have to figure out a way to accelerate the flow without the electromagnetic forces. You might be able to do something with some moving walls and some inlet flow rates.