CFD SIMULATION OF MICROPOLAR FLUID FLOW IN HORIZONTAL CHANNEL

Abstract

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a numerical analysis of the problem of fluid flow, heat transfer and determination of all fluid parameters in the flow field. However, none of the modern available software (Fluent, CFX, Open FOAM etc.) has a micropolar type of fluid defined in the palette of available fluids, and nowadays there is a need to find a way to analyze the flow of such fluids through computational fluid dynamics. Therefore, the paper will present a CFD model for the analysis of micropolar fluid flow in a horizontal channel. The validation of the results will be obtained by comparing the obtained results with the analytical model, and the obtained results will be analyzed through the graphs of the influence of the characteristic parameters on the physical characteristics of the flow, as well as through the visualization of the results directly from the ANSYS CFX software.