Step 4: Materials

Materials

1.   Set the properties for air, the default fluid material.

Materials air Create/Edit...

(a)   Select ideal-gas from the Density drop-down list, so that the ideal gas law is used to calculate density.

Note:    ANSYS FLUENT automatically enables the solution of the energy equation when the ideal gas law is used, in case you did not already enable it manually in the Energy dialog box.

(b)   Retain the default values for all other properties.

(c)   Click the Change/Create button to save your change.

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