Step 4: Materials

Materials

  The default properties of air and water defined in ANSYS FLUENT are suitable for this problem. In this step, you will make sure that both materials are available for selection in later steps.

1.   Add water to the list of fluid materials by copying it from the ANSYS FLUENT materials database.

Materials air Create/Edit...

(a)   Click FLUENT Database... in the Create/Edit Materials dialog box to open the FLUENT Database Materials dialog box.

i.   Select water-liquid (h2o $<$l $>$) from the FLUENT Fluid Materials selection list.

  Scroll down the FLUENT Fluid Materials list to locate water-liquid (h2o $<$l $>$).

ii.   Click Copy to copy the information for water to your list of fluid materials.

iii.   Close the FLUENT Database Materials dialog box.

(b)   Click Change/Create and close the Create/Edit Materials dialog box.