CFD Boundary Conditions for Journal Bearings
Hi all, I have recently started working with Comsol. It seems very easy to use and so far I was able to build my model and have the basic physics working. I am trying to build a journal bearing model...
View ArticleFluid-Porous Slip boundary conditon
Hello, I focus now on the flow and solute transportation simulation in the free flow and porous media. There are traditionally one singe formulation, typically Brinkman and two-domain coupling with...
View ArticleNACA 0012 Airfoil with Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model
Hello, I am new to COMSOL and I thought I would start with a relatively simple model: a NACA 0012 airfoil at 0 angle of attack. The domain is small and the mesh resolution is relatively coarse to get...
View ArticleMultiple-size particle tracing
Hello everyone I have a short question on the particle tracing module. Does anyone know that whether it is possible to simulat particles of different sizes in the same model. How to implement this...
View ArticleFlow in a pipe with a very large aspect ratio
I'm trying to solve what should be a very simple problem as part of a larger project I'm working on. It's just laminar flow in a pipe of length 14,000 feet and radius 0.04 feet. I'm just trying to find...
View ArticleProblem with wall layer
Hello Comsol Community, I'm new to Comsol and modeled a U-shaped pipe in a concrete block. Cold water (1°C) flows through the pipe and the warmer concrete (11°C) surrounding it warms up the water...
View ArticleLinking a Porous Media Flow to a Transport of Concentrated Species
Hello, I have created a chamber that has sugar water running through a compartment and carbon cloth modeled by a free and porous media flow physics. I also want to create a transport of a concentrated...
View ArticleTemperature change from expansion of air
I am trying to model the flow fields of a fluid (air) traveling through an orifice. I have a working model that works great using only the laminar flow module. However, the viscosity of the fluid is...
View ArticleExtrap
Hello Comsol gurus, I am doing a CFD simulation in which I need to use the solution of another CFD simulation. I need to take a "slice" of the solution and use it in another geometry. As I understand,...
View ArticleAnimation depending on distance
Hello dear Comsol gurus, I have made a CFD simulation (stationary) which is based on the model library example of the static mixer. I have also generated the slices and surfaces to see how my fluids...
View ArticleSimulation of an hydraulic accumulator for pulsation reducing
Hello COMSOL community, I am trying to do a transient simulation of an accumulator in a hydraulic circuit. For simplification, the accumulator shall be placed as a bubble of a second fluid domain...
View ArticleUnusual condition between two fluids
Hello, i`m new here, then sorry if this is a silly question... I need to set the follow condition in the interface between two fluids: ro_v*u_v*hfg = ro_l*u_l*hfg = lambda_v*(dTv/dx) -...
View ArticleCooling of a metal box
Hallo to everybody! I'm trying to realize the simulation of a metal box (fillled with air and including an heat source, and surrounded laterally by other boxes that I consider through the...
View ArticleParallel plate model with magnetorheological fluid under magnetic field
Hi, I am trying to model the flow fields of magnetorheological fluid between non-magnetic parallel plate and permanent magnets under magnetic field produced by permanent magnets in in COMSOL3.5a. There...
View ArticleIs there a way to do a temperature dependent heat source in Conjugated Heat...
Hi I'm working in the conjugated heat transfer physics and I'm hoping/wondering if there is a way to make the heat source temperature dependent. I have a cable that is covered with different materials...
View ArticleThin liquid film with thermal gradient in contact with air (tpf, ht, ALE, AMR)
Dear all, I am modelling a thin film liquid in a rectangular channel (2mm), as well as the air on top of it. At the initial condition everything is within room temprature (Tc) then one side of the...
View Articlefailed to evaluate jacobian in using velocity field in fluid particle tracing
Hi, I have tried to edit drag force's equation view in fluid particle tracing(fpt). COMSOL for example, uses "model.input.u1-fpt.vx" for relative velocity in x direction but when i use it in my...
View ArticleHeat transfer from the pipe to surroundings
Sir, We found three options for "Wall Heat transfer" in "Non-Isothermal Pipe Flow" namely 1. Temperature (nitf/nitf) 2. Temperature (nipfl/nipfl) 3. Userdefined. (with an option to check "Take average...
View ArticleMeasuring the temperature at a point
Sir, In a non-isothermal pipe flow model, we have specified wall heat transfer with external temperature as 293.15K and the check box for taking average from adjacent domains is also checked. After...
View ArticleQuestion about Nernst-Planck Model
Hello, I'm a new user for Comsol 4.2. When I applying the Nernst-Planck model form my work, I added 5 species, c1,c2,c3,c4,c5 which zc1=+1, zc2=-1, zc3=-3, zc4=+1, zc5=+1 and set the 'from...
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