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Sarah McElman


Last seen: 25 days ago

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8 total contributions since 2020

I am on the Simscape Fluids Documentation and Development team. I have a background in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and... Fortran.

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Two-Phase Fluid Simscape : different values between Simscape Results Explorer and Sensors
Hi Joris, Yes, it can be confusing! It's possible to observe differences in measurements of the same variable between quasi-ste...

25 days ago | 0

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Is there a pipe bend or elbow bock for thermal fluid?
Hi Christopher, That's right - there are no pipe bend blocks at this time in the Thermal Liquid library. However, there are two...

1 month ago | 0

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Heat exchanger (G-G) parameter
Hi Carlos, Your first impression is correct. The Length of flow path for heat transfer corresponds to the length of the piping...

1 month ago | 0

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Matlab for Studying Plastic Polluton and movement of particles through a fluid.
Hi Liam, Unfortunately for your project, it is not possible to model solid particle motion in a fluid with Simscape Fluids. Sim...

2 months ago | 0

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How can i adjust thermal fluid settings from an THB-Bus? (Simscape Thermal Liquid)
Hi Johannes, I understand that you'd like to adjust the values of the pressure, temperature, and mass flow rate in a single lin...

2 months ago | 0

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Is it possible to use two phase flow for a gas pushing a liquid out a tank?
Hi Grace, I understand that you'd like to model the interaction of two different fluids in the same network. The two-phase fl...

2 months ago | 0

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Simscape Two-phase Fluid Constant Pressure Specific Heat
Hello, You are correct that nu_TLU represents the kinematic viscosity, and not the specific heat, in the two-phase fluid proper...

2 months ago | 0

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simscape fluids or ansys? for 2 phase heat transfer
Hi Eric, You're correct in assessing that Simscape Fluids is not CFD. Depending on the nature of the heat transfer you're looki...

2 months ago | 0