FLUENT - Forced Convection - Step 5

Step 5: Solution

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

Solution > Solution Methods

Let's use the default first order discretization method. Now let's us look at the convergence criteria.

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

The default convergence criteria is set to 0.001. Let's click OK and use this default value.

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. FLUENT obtain solution at about 83 iteration. Let's check out our result. Close FLUENT and return to Workbench.

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