CFD Report Template

This document serves as a guide and a template for CFD simulation reports. [remove this line before publishing the actual report].

Objective

Briefly describe the goal of the simulation.

• what is being simulated and why

Pre-processing

Geometry

• screenshot of the geometry, and also the domain

• explain which named selections are applied and where (preferably, screenshots of the named selections are also shown)

Mesh

• screenshot of the mesh

• how many cells in the mesh?

• include a screenshot of the mesh settings, or summarize them in a table

Boundary conditions

• which boundary conditions are applied, where?

• Value of flow inlet, and outlet pressure

Solver

• Which solver is being used?

• What are the residual values? (also include convergence criteria is those are set)

• How many iterations?

Results

Verification

• Compare the simulation results with existing data only if this is possible (i.e. airfoil simulation results can be compared to NACA plot)

Plots

• Include residual plots

• plots of the variables being monitored (i.e. lift plot, drag plot)

• final values of the variables of interest

Surface plots

• Screenshot of velocity and pressure distribution (can be on a plane, or on the geometry surface)

Conclusion

• summarize the final values. Was the simulation successful? Challenges faced?

• provide any recommendations based off the findings from the simulation (i.e. part re-design)