Hi everyone,
I have been playing around with the rotating zone concept to simulate the flow of air generated by a rotating spinneret in open and close environment. I have been obtaining nice results and I want to now add more complexity by simulating the conjugate heat transfer by heating the rotating object. I have simplified the geometry to get a hang of the problem but I can’t get to run the simulation.
Context:
A rotating cone is heated (38000 deg/s = 100 rps) by a power source (100W) in an open environment.
Geometry:
A simple cone for the solid object. The fluid volume is generated by cutting the cone out of a large cylinder. The MRF zone is also a cylinder encompassing the whole cone. Picture below
I work with FreeCAD and all the geometry was exported to .step format.
Advanced concepts:
- The MRF is obviously the rotating zone
- The fluid volume is set at constant inlet/outlet of pressure
- The cone is heated at a constant power.
Objective:
I want to compute the temperature/heat dissipation at the air-cone interface and study the cooling due to different rotation speeds.
The workspace can be found here: https://www.simscale.com/projects/jlengaigne/simplified_rotating_cone/
Issues:
- The interfaces seems well detected, but when I add (and run the simulation) the wall boundary condition to the inner region of the fluid volume (as in more standard incompressible simulation) I get the error that the i have multiple assignments/interfaces to these faces.
- If I remove the wall condition, I get the error that no material has been assigned to region 2. I don’t know what is region 2 and I cannot find a region not assigned apart from the MRF.
- I also get the warning that some domains are not connected.
I have tried to mess around but I cannot figure out how to correct the setup. It may also be coming from the CAD model itself.
Any insights or suggestions?
Thanks!