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Here R = radius of the pipe, and L = length of the pipe. Rotating the above rectangle 360 degrees about the axis will recover the full pipe geometry.

Start ANSYS FLUENT

We'll run FLUENT within the ANSYS Workbench interface.

Click on Run. This brings up the ANSYS interface. To make the best use of screen real estate, move the windows around and resize them so that you approximate this screen arrangement. This way you can read instructions in the browser window and implement them in ANSYS. Note that this tutorial has been formatted to fit in a skinny browser window. If your monitor screen is small, you can use Alt+Tab keys to conveniently switch between the ANSYS and browser windows (this trick works in Microsoft Windows).

You can resize the text in the browser window to your taste and comfort as follows:

In Internet Explorer: Menubar > View > Text Size, then choose the appropriate font size.

In Mozilla Firefox: Menubar > View > Zoom

This tutorial is specially configured, so the user can have both the tutorial and ANSYS open at the same time as shown below. It will be beneficial to have both ANSYS and your internet browser displayed on your monitor. Your internet browser should consume approximately one third of the screen width while ANSYS should take the other two thirds.

We'll run FLUENT within the ANSYS Workbench interface.  Start Start ANSYS workbench:

Start > All Programs > ANSYS 1213.1 0 > Workbench

The following figure shows the workbench window.

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