Introduction

This tutorial demonstrates the postprocessing capabilities of ANSYS FLUENT using a 3D model of a flat circuit board with a heat generating electronic chip mounted on it. The flow over the chip is laminar and involves conjugate heat transfer.

The heat transfer involves conduction in the chip and conduction and convection in the surrounding fluid. The physics of conjugate heat transfer such as this, is common in many engineering applications, including the design and cooling of electronic components.

In this tutorial, you will read the case and data files (without doing the calculation) and perform a number of postprocessing exercises.

This tutorial demonstrates how to do the following:

• Add lights to the display at multiple locations.

• Create surfaces for the display of 3D data.

• Display filled contours of temperature on several surfaces.

• Display velocity vectors.

• Mirror a display about a symmetry plane.

• Create animations.

• Display results on successive slices of the domain.

• Display pathlines.

• Plot quantitative results.

• Overlay and "explode" a display.

• Annotate the display.