Introduction to Ansys SpaceClaim Direct

Modeler

Workshop 5.3 CFD: Tube Bundle

Release 2020 R1

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 Geometry and Operating Conditions

Air supplied to
inlet at 1.67 m/s,
40° C

Reynolds number = 5,800 Tubes, cool water @ Outlet @ gauge pressure = 0 Pa

10° C, heat transfer
coefficient 400 W/m²·K

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 Introduction

Background
• This workshop assumes little experience of Ansys SpaceClaim

Objectives
• Importing the geometry in Ansys SpaceClaim
• Repairing the Geometry using adequate tools
• Extracting the fluid volume using volume extract
• Slicing the solid to benefit from the symmetry

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 Start Workbench

• Start Workbench either from the

desktop icon or from
• Start > All Programs > Ansys > Workbench

• In Workbench, go to File > Save As… and

save the project as, e.g., WS04-Tube-
Bundle, in a folder of your choice.

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 Geometry Import

Create the Project

• Drag and drop a Mesh component

system into the Project Schematic
• Right click on the Geometry cell (A2)
and select Import Geometry → Browse
• Locate the file “Repair-CAD.scdoc” in
the Meshing Workshops Input Files and
select it. The geometry cell will show a
check mark indicating it is up to date

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 Open Geometry in Ansys SpaceClaim

Start Ansys SpaceClaim

• Double click on the Geometry cell to open it in SpaceClaim
‐ Note: right click and edit the geometry in SpaceClaim is similar
‐ Ansys SpaceClaim will start and load the geometry

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 Repair Geometry (1)

• As you can see, some of the bodies are imported as surface bodies
• To repair this, we will use the Solidify group in the Repair tab

All the surface bodies

• Click on ‘Stitch’; one stritchable edge is found
are stitched into one
• Click the green tick to stitch it surface body!

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 Repair Geometry (2)

• Click on ‘Gaps’; No areas found

• Click on ‘Missing Faces’; 3 areas are found
‐ Click the green tick to repair these areas

The surface body in

the Shell component
turned t a Solid body

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 Fluid Volume Extraction (1)

• In this workshop, we have the solid volume that contains the fluid of our interest

• We will extract the fluid volume from the solid using the “Volume Extract” in
SpaceClaim

• Go to the ‘Prepare’ tab and hover the mouse over the function called ‘Volume Extract’

• Press F1 to open the help section for this function and read it

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 Fluid Volume Extraction (2)

• Click on the “Volume Extract” function; the first icon will let you select the surfaces
that enclosure the fluid volume ( you can read the explanation in the top left of the
design window)
‐ Highlight this icon and select the following surfaces without holding the control key

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 Fluid Volume Extraction (3)

• Click on the last icon to select a face that lies within the fluid volume and select one of
the wetted surfaces like the internal surface shown down here
• Click on the green tick mark

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 Slicing the body (1)

• This model has the global xy plane as a

symmetry plane
• We will create a plane to slice the solid
with
• Hover over the middle cylinder until the
axe appears and click on ‘create plane’
button than click on the highlighted axe

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 Slicing the body (2)

• In this case, we will rotate the plane to be coincident with the global xy plane
• We’ll click on the ‘Move’ tool, select the plane and click on the red arc
• We will start rotating the plane along the red arc and hit the space button; we can
enter our own dimension now: I’ll write 90°
• Now, the plane is where we want it to be

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 Slicing the body (3)

• Click on the ‘Split Body’ tool in the ‘Design’ tab and select the created ‘Volume’ body
• Click on the created plane to use it as a cutter

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 Slicing the body (4)

• Click on all the right middle part to delete it with the last icon

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 Suppress all the other bodies

• In the tree, deactivate all the other bodies and the plane, suppress them for physics
and rename the ‘Volume’ body to ‘Fluid’

• Exit Ansys SpaceClaim

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End of presentation