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You should have all the surfaces shown in the above snapshot.  Clicking on a surface name in the Mesh Display menu will toggle between select and unselect. Clicking Display will show all the currently selected surface entities in the graphics pane. Unselect all surfaces and then select each one in turn to see which part of the domain or boundary the particular surface entity corresponds to (you will need to zoom in/out and translate the model as you do this). For instance, the surface labeled heated_section should correspond to the part of the wall where heating occurs.

Specify Governing Equations

We ask Next, we specify that we want FLUENT to solve the axisymmetric form of the governing equations.
General > Solver > 2D Space > Axisymmetric

 
The energy equation is turned off by default. Turn on the energy equation.
Models > Energy - Off > Edit...
Turn on the Energy Equation and click OK.
 
By default, FLUENT will assume the flow is laminar. Let's tell it that our flow is turbulent rather than laminar and that we want to use the k-epsilon turbulence model to simulate our turbulent flow. This means FLUENT will solve for mean (i.e. Reynolds-averaged) quantities at every point in the domain. It will add the k and epsilon equations to the governing equations to calculate the effect of the turbulent fluctuations on the mean, as discussed in the powerpoint presentation.

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Click Change/Create and Close the Create/Edit Materials window.

Specify Boundary Conditions

FLUENT uses gauge pressure internally in order to minimize round-off errors stemming from small differences of big numbers. Any time an absolute pressure is needed, it is generated by adding the so-called "operating pressure" to the gauge pressure. This "operating pressure" is also used in the "incompressible ideal gas" model as mentioned above. We will specify the "operating pressure" as equal to the measured ambient pressure since the absolute pressure in the pipe varies only slightly from this (you do get significant variations in gauge pressures though)Let's set up the boundary conditions now. We will first specify our operating conditions.

Boundary Conditions > Operating Conditions...

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