ANSYS CFD Tutorial: Fluid Flow over a Circular Cylinder - von Karman Effect

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This is the first CFD tutorial of the channel! Today's tutorial will show you how to set up the CFD simulation for the fluid flow around 1 cylinder with the objective of seeing the von Karman effect. In the following episodes, we are going to compare to results obtained for 1 cylinder, 2 cylinders and 3 cylinders in tandem separated by varying amount in order to see how the number of cylinder and the spacing between cylinder will affect the von Karman effect.

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0:00 Introduction
2:40 SpaceClaim Geometry Setup
8:45 Mesh Setup
14:20 Fluent - Boundary Conditions and General Simulation Setup
26:22 Running Calculation
26:57 Lift and Drag Plot Discussion
28:57 Post Processing (CFD Post) - Contours, Streamlines, Animation
37:27 Final Animation and Conclusion