Pre-Analysis & Start-Up

Since the pipe cross-section is circular and heat is applied in an axisymmetric manner, we'll assume that the flow is axisymmetric. In cylindrical polar coordinates, this means that the flow variables depend only on the axial coordinate x and radial coordinate r, and are independent of the azimuthal coordinate θ. Hence we can model the pipe problem with a rectangular domain.

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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.The radial direction is labeled as y in FLUENT. 

Introduction

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