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Periodic Flow Condition in Conjugate Heat Transfer Physics

Posted 22.11.2011, 14:45 GMT-5 Fluid & Heat, Heat Transfer & Phase Change, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Microfluidics Version 4.0a 0 Replies

Vicki Ragsdale
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Hi there,

Attached is a simulation with a microfluidic channel and heat transfer. This simulation includes just one of many serpentine channels in my device and I would like to model the situation with infinite cycles. To accomplish this, I am using 'conjugate heat transfer' and want to add the periodic flow condition to the inlet and outlet fluid channel surfaces. However, I don't know how to define a velocity with this condition and the solution always blows up.

I have removed the mesh also to reduce the file size. I am using an older version of COMSOL because that is what is installed on the computer I need to use.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks!

Vicki
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