With Conjugate Heat Transfer: Power Inverter 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. If the Residual plot opens, close it.
8. Click
Create Fluid Domain. The
Fluid Domain Creation tab opens.
9. Select the Shrinkwrap check box.
10. Click the Openings tab.
11. Click the empty Faces box. The Surface Sets dialog box opens.
12. Press CTRL and select the two surfaces shown below.
13. In the Surface Sets dialog box, click OK
14. Click
to create the fluid domain.
15. Click
Select Simulation Domains. The
Domain Model Selection box opens.
16. In the Domain Model Selection box, select Add fluid domain.
17. In the Model Tree select POWERINVERTER_1_FLUID.PRT.
18. Middle-click to confirm. The fluid domain appears in the Domain Model Selection dialog box under Fluid Components.
19. In the Domain Model Selection box, select Add solid component.
20. In the Model Tree select all the PRT entities with the exception of the parts listed below:
◦ POWERINVERTER_1_FLUID_DOMAIN.PRT
◦ POWERINVERTER_2_FLUID_DOMAIN.PRT
◦ POWERINVERTER_3_FLUID_DOMAIN.PRT
◦ POWERINVERTER_4_FLUID_DOMAIN.PRT
◦ POWERINVERTER_1_MERGE_RD.PRT
◦ POWERINVERTER_1_MERGE_SW.PRT
21. Middle-click to confirm. The fluid domains appear in the Domain Model Selection dialog box under Solid Components.
22. In the Domain Model Selection dialog box click OK. The created fluid and solid domains appear in the Flow Analysis Tree under Domains. The boundaries for the boundary conditions are automatically created. They appear in the Flow Analysis Tree in the Boundary Conditions area under General Boundaries.
