Power Inverter without Heat Transfer: Exercise 1—Extracting the Fluid Domain
1. Click > and navigate to the FlowAnalysisModels folder. Click OK.
3. From the File Open dialog box, browse to the power_inverter_assembly_creo folder and select powerinverter.asm. Click Open.
4. Click
in the Graphics toolbar to display the style elements. Select
Shading, or
Shading with Edges.
5. Click the Applications tab.
6. Click
Flow Analysis. The
Flow Analysis tab opens.
7. Click
New Project. The
New Project dialog box opens. Enter the name of the project and Click
OK.
8. Click
Create Fluid Domain. The
Fluid Domain Creation tab opens.
9. Click the Openings tab.
10. Click the Faces box. The Surface Sets dialog box opens.
11. Press CTRL and select the two surfaces as shown below.
12. Click OK in the Surface Sets dialog box.
13. Click
.
14. Click
Select Simulation Domains. The
Domain Model Selection box opens.
15. In the Domain Model Selection box, select Add fluid domain.
16. In the Model Tree select POWERINVERTER_FLUID_1.PRT. Middle-click to confirm. The fluid domain appears in the Domain Model Selection dialog box under Fluid Components.
17. Click OK. The fluid domain appears in the Flow Analysis Tree as POWERINVERTER_FLUID_1:Body 1. The boundary conditions BC_00001 and BC_00002 are automatically created and they appear in the Flow Analysis Tree under > . POWERINVERTER_FLUID_1:Body 1 appears in the Flow Analysis Tree under > > .
18. Under
Domains, right-click
POWERINVERTER_1_FLUID_DOMAIN and select
Add Boundary Condition. The
Surface Sets dialog box opens.
19. Press CTRL and select the nine surfaces on the upper side of the inverter as shown in the figure below.
20. Click OK. Under General Boundaries a new entity BC_00003 is created.