Summary

In this tutorial, you studied the setup and solution for a fluid flow problem involving solidification for the Czochralski growth process.

The solidification model in ANSYS FLUENT can be used to model the continuous casting process where a solid material is continuously pulled out from the casting domain. In this tutorial, you patched a constant value and a custom field function for the pull velocities instead of computing them. This approach is used for cases where the pull velocity is not changing over the domain, as it is computationally less expensive than having ANSYS FLUENT compute the pull velocities during the calculation.

For more information about the solidification/melting model, see this chapter in the separate User's Guide.