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Power Inverter without Heat Transfer: Exercise 1—Extracting the Fluid Domain
1. Click Home > Select Working Directory and navigate to the FlowAnalysisModels folder. Click OK.
2. Click File > Open.
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 Boundary Conditions > General Boundaries. POWERINVERTER_FLUID_1:Body 1 appears in the Flow Analysis Tree under Boundary Conditions > General Boundaries > Default.
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.
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Fluid Domain Extraction
Boundary Conditions
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