Ricardo VECTIS Pipe Junction Example

VECTIS is a three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver that has been developed specifically to address fluid flow simulations in the vehicle and engine industries. VECTIS is developed around a completely automatic mesh generator, providing a rapid turnaround time for CFD analyses.

This example models fluid in two pipes which meet at a junction. The fluid used in this example is air, and the two pipes have diameters of 25 mm and 30 mm respectively, joining a larger pipe of 40 mm diameter.

Simulation CodeRicardo Vectis 2016.2
Analysis TypeCFD
DescriptionThis Ricardo Vectis example job models a pipe junction. It is run in 3 phases. Phase 2 creates a mesh from the geometry. Phase 4 performs the domain decomposition into 8 parts. Phase 5 runs the solver using an unlimited rdm license.
Suggested HardwareEmerald / 8 cores
Command
phase2 pipej.mesh;
phase4 -np 8;
phase5 -np 8 -hf $HOME/mpd.hosts -rdmu pipej.INP
Estimated Run Time2 minutes