[TUTORIAL] CFD Cyclone Simulation using ICEM CFD and ANSYS FLUENT

Tutorial for a simple cyclone simulation using ICEM CFD and ANSYS FLUENT.
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Chair of Energy Process Engineering
Experimental measurements on the cyclone were carried out by Obermair and Staudinger (2001).
Efficiency grade curve and test conditions from: A. C. Hoffmann, L. E. Stein: Gas Cyclones and Swirl Tubes - Principles, Design and Operation - Second Edition, Springer, 2008

[@Nisc0]

Awesome tutorial, million million thanks!! Nice that there are people like you who are willing to spend their free time in order to help us others. :)

[@Lampuk1stan]

Word of advice: A few transient timesteps to get the residuals down doesn't mean that your simulation converged. Set up monitor definitions for things like pressure drop, volume averaged velocity magnitude, maximum velocity, mass flux etc.
And let the simulation run until these values do not change anymore.
I'm sure OP knows this by now, but beginners maybe do not

[@sureme6130]

Awesome tutorial,thank you！It is helpful for me.

[@swanand12345678910]

Amazing Video, highly edifying, but would appreciate an either transient or steady state simulation, either way very few people who go outta their way to spread knowledge, so thank you sir!

[@suryakarla8628]

Great tutorial. Danke Chrahi89 !

[@MichaelBoHansen]

What values of the restitution coefficient have you been used? 1 and 1? And which influences does it have on the efficiency?

[@dennisvega5897]

Hi, one question, How did you change the associations from the minutes 14:40 to 14:42?. At first, the light blue lines do not coincide with the circumferences (and the four point at the center), then, two seconds later they do. I can't see how you did it. Thank you.

[@aravindpvk]

I am stuck at the same point....drive.google.com/open?id=1cxZfNgHVaAS61wZSFID3YNtWh2mQ7iVw

[@vedashripatil7150]

at 13.00 how the part solid was created

[@arturorinconortiz9581]

hi mate, thank u so much for this tutorial, but i'm having some trouble to doit, when I open the project in fluent appear the following message: BUILD GRID: aborted due a critical error, what should i fix buddy?

[@gokulravindran1494]

+Arturo Rincon : Hi even I am getting the same error. I learnt that the error is due to O-Grid that we create by split blocking technique. If you come to know about the solution to this error please let me know. Thanks

[@ensenafm2641]

thank you, i need contact with you.