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1. Geometry Drawing
The first step of CFD simulation is drawing the geometry, the geometry as seen on Figure
1. In this case, the blood plasma is separated at the separation zone. Then the separation
zone wasnt included on the geometry for simulation.
3 mm
1 mm
2 mm
2 mm
1 mm
Figure 1. Geometry
2. Meshing
The next step is meshing which is dividing the geometry into small elements. The all
triangles and sizing element method are used in this meshing. The element size is 20 m.
The skewness value in this simulation is 0.32 which is categorized as very good (Figure
2). The inlet and outlet are defined as seen on Figure 3.
3. Processing
The first thing to do before processing is determining the viscous model using Reynold
Number (Re). The flow is defined as laminar if the Re value less than 3 and turbulent if the
Re value more than 3 (Ergun, 1952). The Re is determined using equation below:
Dp v
Re
1025kg m 3 1x10 6 m 6,75 x10 5 m s 1
Re
0,0016kg m 1 s 1
Re 4,32 x105
Based on the the Re value above, then the viscous model modeled is laminar. After determine the
viscous model, define the material (in this case is blood plasma). Viscosity and density value of
blood plasma was needed to define the blood plasma material on CFD software. In this case the
viscosity of blood plasma is 0.00165 kgm-1s-1 and 1025 kgm-3 for blood plasma density. Because
the heat transfer was neglected, then the solid material was not defined.
Then define the cell zone conditions as a porous zone and input the porosity (), viscous resistance
(-1), and inertial resistance (C2) which has been defined using equation below:
Pore Diamter Surface Area
Pore Volume
9
2,1x10 m 11,8m 2 gr 1
0,708
0,035 x10 6 m 3 gr 1
150 (1 ) 2
1
D p2 3
150 (1 0,703) 2
1 6 2
3
3,603x1013 m 2
(1x10 ) 0,703
3,5 1
C2
Dp 3
3,5 1 0,703
C2 2879725,708m 1
1x10 6 0,70353
Then, input the velocity as a boundary conditions, the velocity value is 6,75x10-5 m.s-1. Then run
the simulation until converged to get velocity contour, pressure contour, and velocity profile on
graph.
4. Result
Meshing
After finished the geometry, the next step is meshing. Meshing menu can be found in
Workbench ANSYS like Figure 9 (see red arrow).