NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF AN AXIAL FLOW FAN: ANSYS VS SOLIDWORKS
Abstract
Axial flow fans are designed to operate in stable parts of the characteristic curves for the axial fan. However, it is possible that the operation regime becomes unstable due to changing conditions, resulting in a decrease of the fan’s operational characteristics. In this article, a simulation is focused on the stable part of characteristic curves for the axial fan at various mass flow rates, which were acquired with numerical simulation software packages: Ansys CFX and SolidWorks Flow Simulation. The analyses were performed on designed structured meshes with similar numbers of elements, for different mass flow rates. In order to validate the numerically obtained results from both software packages, we compared them to experimental values from a reliable source.
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