Hello all,
I am new to the Altiar ecosystem and trying to model a basic binary flow diffusion/multi-species problem wherein air and gas are mixing. The simplified system is represented as a box with two inlets and one outlet. For the first inlet, I have flow rate data of air (100% air and 0% gas) entering the system at a specific temperature and pressure. For the outlet, I have details of the volumetric flow rate (m3/s) along with the volume fraction of the mixture (%ages of air and gas). The objective is to predict the flow rate & volume fraction at the second inlet.
To summarise:
Inlet 1 - Air
- Vol. flow rate: known
- volume fraction: known (100% air)
- Pressure: known
- Temperature: known
Outlet: Mixture of air & gas
- Vol. flow rate: known
- Volume fraction: known
- Pressure: to be computed
- Temperature: to be computed
Inlet 2 - Mixture of air & gas
- Vol. flow rate: to be computed
- volume fraction: to be computed
- pressure: to be computed
- temperature - known
I have a couple of questions regarding this and any advice/recommendation from the best practices perspective is also welcomed
- Given that the system is a fully compressible one (gasses), I am unable to find multi-species options (they're greyed out) when I use the (mildly) compressible solver/option in the flow ribbon while it is available for the incompressible flow. Can someone suggest if this is the limitation of the current solver or if there is some other way to go about it? Any information would be a great help.
- Irrespective of the multispecies issue with the compressible flow, I thought I would model just a simple box with 2 inlets and 1 outlet of air in AcuSolve. To this extent, I have managed to find my way to the vol. flow rate boundary condition for the inlet condition, but I am unable to find one for the outlet boundary. Can someone please point me to specify the flow rate at the outlet please?
- Any thoughts on what boundary condition should i use for Inlet 2 would be helpful too. I was thinking of assuming average pressure for inlet 2 but then if there is any other way to go about it, I would prefer them.
Thanks,
Sid