Restarting with Frozen Flow

Jagan
Jagan Altair Community Member
edited December 2022 in Community Q&A

I'm modeling forced convection with different thermal loads (i.e. 250W 500W 100W). I have gone through ACU-T: 3101 Transient Conjugate Heat Transfer in a Mixing Elbow tutorial. So is it enough to solve flow and turbulence for one case and temperature field alone for the rest cases? 
Thank you.

 

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  • acupro
    acupro
    Altair Employee
    edited December 2022 Answer ✓

    If the fluid properties are independent of temperature (so constant properties), you should be fine going through just the thermal solve on that 'frozen' flow result.  It will save a lot of simulation time.

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  • acupro
    acupro
    Altair Employee
    edited December 2022 Answer ✓

    If the fluid properties are independent of temperature (so constant properties), you should be fine going through just the thermal solve on that 'frozen' flow result.  It will save a lot of simulation time.