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FLOW PAST CYLINDER

Before You Start: This Tutorial Problem Requires CFDStudio/ANSWER™ v5.5 . The users of the software are encouraged to walk through this tutorial and reproduce it on their own while following, rather than just browsing through it.

The Flow Past Cylinder problem has been one of the first problems to be investigated both in conventional and computational fluid dynamics.

In this tutorial, we will set up a 2D grid and solve the flow using ANSWER™ v5.5.

1) Run the CFDStudio/ANSWER™ v5.5 application. The opening screen of ANSWER™ v5.5 looks like as in Fig.1.1.

Fig.1.1:Opening screen for ANSWER™ v5.5. Wizard

This is basically frame window with menu bar, tool bar and status bar at the top followed by command window in the left and geometry window in the right. The top bar provides the navigational menus, and has the look & feel of a generic windows menu bar. The left frame is the home of the command file and a list of active variables for the problem at hand. Finally, the right frame hosts the ACRi Geometry Window. A dialogue also appears on the main browser window stating various options.

We can start setting up the problem now, using ANSWER™ v5.5.

2) User is provided with four options:

1. Open an Existing Project (default choice),
2. Start a New Project - Answer Project Setup Wizard,
3. Import a Legacy Commands File and
4. Visualize/Postprocess Only. For our Project setup we need toselect "Start a New Project- ANSWER Project Setup Wizard">>Go to start the project. A new dialog window appears to specify the project identification having options like project title, User name and the options for the grid type. Enter the required information as shown in Fig. 1.2.

   

   Fig - 1.2: Project Identification dialog box

   3) In the Title field, type "FlowPastCylinder". This is a very important step. The title is used as the folder and file names for all project files. For instance,

   Commands (input) file: FlowPastCylinder.inp
   Output file: FlowPastCylinder.out
   Archive (save) file: FlowPastCylinder.sav
   Diagnostics file: FlowPastCylinder.dgn

   ... and so on. All these files will be created on the server and placed within a folder also named FlowPastCylnder.

   Hence, it is very important that the Project Name is one-word, and not too long. It is a good practice to CapitalizeTheFirstLetterOfEachWord (as opposed to capitalizethefirstletterofeachword) for ease of read.

   4) In the User Name field, type your name. For specifying the grid type, select either 2D or 3D based upon your Project requirements. Here in this case we will choose 2D Cartesian

   5) Click on "next >" to reach "Grid and Geometry Specification" page. Choose a option to generate a new grid or to load a existing grid as shown in fig.1.3. In this problem we will choose "Load Existing Grid".

   

   Fig - 1.3: screen for Grid and Geometry Specification

   6) Click "Next >" to reach "Load Existing Grid" dialog box.

   Select the "Structured Grid" from data formats (See fig 1.4). To read the file click on the link GRID.grd.

   ALTERNATIVELY: you can download these files in zipped form, extract them to a local directory, and read them locally, as they are pretty big files to download in uncompressed ASCII format.

   

   Fig - 1.4: Dialog box for loading existing grid

   7) Click on "Finish" button. A new geometry is created in the geometry panel and a dialog window appears for "ANSWER PROBLEM SETUP WIZARD".(See Fig.1.5 and 1.6)

   

   Fig.1.5: Geometry panel after creating the grid

   8) The small red square on the grid is the Cursor. We can choose various options like Rotate, Zoom, Spin etc. from Mouse Drag mode on Geometry panel. Try to play with these options to get feel of the geometry.

   

   Fig - 1.6: Window for Answer Problem Setup Wizard.

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