33.5 Phases Task Page

The Phases task page allows you to define each of the phases and the interaction between them. See Sections  24.2.4- 24.5.2 for details.

Controls

Phases   contains a list of all of the phases in the problem from which you can select the phase you want to define or modify. A phase can be a Primary Phase or a Secondary Phase. You cannot change a phase from primary to secondary, or vice versa. Instead, you can redefine the properties of the primary phase to reflect the new phase designated as primary, and redefine the secondary phases accordingly as well.

Edit...   opens either the Primary Phase dialog box or the Secondary Phase dialog box, where you can define the properties of the selected primary or secondary phase.

Interaction...   opens the Phase Interaction dialog box, where you can define the interaction between the phases (e.g., surface tension if you are using the VOF model, slip velocity functions if you are using the mixture model, or drag functions if you are using the Eulerian model).

ID   displays the ID number of the phase. You will need this number only if you are writing a user-defined function. See the separate UDF Manual for details about writing user-defined functions for multiphase applications.