microwave simulation tools with Fluent CFD code:Concerto or Quickwave 3D

Aug 21, 2005 0 Replies

Hi to everbody, I'm a mechanical engineer specialized in CFD (computational Fluid dynamics) and I have a problem and I hope you are able to help me.I must project an industrial microwave used for ready meals.In next following weeks I will have to start the simulations,and of course there isn't any CFD code which has a specific package for electromagnetism. as you probably known,in nature the Heat is transferred by rays,and in the mechanical field we consider only the radiation,which lenght wave is between the IR and UV rays.I thought to use a CFD code (FLUENT INC) to simulate the heat exchager of my project,but for the electromagnetic device of my problem (21 microwave antennas @ 2.5 GHz) i need an EM (ElectroMagnetic) solver because fluent of course doesn't works in the wave lenght range discussed above.the ideal solution should be an EM solver which could be easyly matched with Fluent preprocessing .I mean I'd like to import the mesh,the boundary conditions and the computational results (temperture,entalpy ) into fluent .In ths way the computional mistakes should be reduced. I wrote to a CFD newsgroup (sci.physics .computational. fluid-dynamics) but nobody replied,maybe for a lack of knowledge.Looking @ the EM solvers avaiable,i understood that probably the most useful product would be CONCERTO or QUICKWAVE3D.If someone uses these EM codes, I would be very happy to listen to his/her opinion about this topic. kind regards edoardo


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