Flow and thermal models

These pages explain the flow, material, and heat-transfer models used within the computational domain.

• Material properties explains the built-in and custom fluid models and the properties assigned to conducting solids.
• Conducting and insulating domains explains which regions participate in the temperature solve.
• Turbulence inlet conditions and wall treatment explains how inlet inputs become tke and sdr conditions and which wall functions Vanellus applies.
• Boussinesq buoyancy and reference temperature explains temperature-driven flow and the model reference temperature.
• Compact thermal models compares two-resistor and STAR networks and their explicit and implicit coupling formulations.

For configuration steps, use the Flow and heat transfer How-to guides.