Step 5: Materials

Materials

1.   Create a new material called water.

Materials Fluid Create/Edit...

(a)   Enter water for Name.

(b)   Enter the following values in the Properties group box:

Property	Value
Density	1000 ${\rm kg/m}^3$
$c_p$	4216 ${\rm J/kg-K}$
Thermal Conductivity	0.677 ${\rm W/m-K}$
Viscosity	8e-04 ${\rm kg/m-s}$

(c)   Click Change/Create.

  A Question dialog box will open, asking if you want to overwrite air. Click No so that the new material water is added to the list of materials which originally contained only air.

Extra:   You could have copied the material water-liquid (h2o $<$l $>$) from the materials database (accessed by clicking the FLUENT Database... button). If the properties in the database are different from those you wish to use, you can edit the values in the Properties group box in the Create/Edit Materials dialog box and click Change/Create to update your local copy. The original copy will not be affected.

(d)   Make sure that there are now two materials (water and air) defined locally by examining the FLUENT Fluid Materials drop-down list.

  Both the materials will also be listed under Fluid in the Materials task page.

(e)   Close the Create/Edit Materials dialog box.