FLUENT - Forced Convection - Step 5

Step 5: Solution

Now we will be dealing with the Solution section of FLUENT. Let's first specify the discretization method.

Solution > Solution Methods
Under Spatial Discretization, change Momentum, Turbulent Kinetic Energy, Turbulent Dissipation Rate, Energy to Second Order Upwind discretization method.

Now let's us set the convergence criteria.

Solution > Monitors > Residuals - Print, Plot > Edit...

Enter convergence criteria of 1e6 for continuity, x-velocity, y-velocity, k and epsilon. Click OK to close the window.

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At this point, everything is set up properly. We just need to give an initial condition for FLUENT to start the calculation. 
Solution > Solution Initialization
Under Compute from, select Inlet and click Initialize.
 
Now we can solve for a solution. 
Solution > Run Calculation 
Enter 500 for Number of Iterations and click Calculate. You will see a window message saying Calculating the solution... Wait for FLUENT to finish the calculation.

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