33.7 Boundary Conditions Task Page

The Boundary Conditions task page allows you to set the type of a boundary and display other dialog boxes to set the boundary condition parameters for each boundary.

Controls

Zone   contains a selectable list of boundary zones from which you can select the zone of interest. You can check a zone type by using the mouse probe (see Section  29.3) on the displayed physical mesh. This feature is particularly handy if you are setting up a problem for the first time, or if you have two or more boundary zones of the same type and you want to determine the zone IDs. To do this you must first display the mesh with the Mesh Display dialog box. Then click the boundary zone with the right (select) mouse button. ANSYS FLUENT will print the zone ID and type of that boundary zone in the console window.

Phase   specifies the phase for which conditions at the selected boundary Zone are being set. This item appears if the VOF, mixture, or Eulerian multiphase model is being used. See Section  24.2.9 for details.

Type   contains a drop-down list of boundary condition types for the selected zone. The list contains all possible types to which the zone can be changed.

Note that you cannot use this method to change zone types to or from the periodic type, since additional restrictions exist for this boundary type. Section  6.8.4 explains how to create and uncouple periodic zones.

ID   displays the zone ID number of the selected zone. (This is for informational purposes only; you cannot edit this number.)

Edit...   opens the appropriate dialog box for setting the boundary conditions for that particular boundary type.

Copy...   opens the Copy Conditions dialog box, which allows you to copy boundary conditions from one zone to other zones of the same type. See Section  7.1.5 for details.

Profiles...   opens the Profiles dialog box.

Parameters...   opens the Parameters dialog box.

Operating Conditions...   opens the Operating Conditions dialog box.

Periodic Conditions...   opens the Periodic Conditions dialog box.