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Boundary condition on vacuum chamber

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duartemv

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Jan 11, 2006
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I'm trying to study the flow inside a vacuum chamber with flowrks, and so far I had some success if I work at atmospheric pressure.
My problem is the setting of the boundary conditions!

I have 2 gas "volume inlets", and an outlet which I usually set as "static pressure outlet". This way I get an acceptable result. But since I want to work in vaccum, I need no set the outlet as a "volume outlet" with a certain value. When I do this, the program says that it's necessary to have a "pressure" boundary condition for the simulation to run, but I don't know how I can set this one...

I believe that if I set the internal wall of the chamber as a "pressure" condition, I might be able to solve this problem, but I don't know if it is a "total pressure" or a "statit pressure". Another thing is that this setting requires me to enter a value for the pressure boundary, but it's easy to see that the pressure won't be constant, which poses another doubt...

Can anyone help me with this?
 
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