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ANSYS FLUENT Tutorial Guide

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a. Change the units for length.<br />

Because you want to specify and view values based on a unit of length in inches from within<br />

<strong>ANSYS</strong> <strong>FLUENT</strong>, change the units of length within <strong>ANSYS</strong> <strong>FLUENT</strong> from meters (the default)<br />

to inches.<br />

Important<br />

Note that the <strong>ANSYS</strong> Meshing application automatically converts and exports<br />

meshes for <strong>ANSYS</strong> <strong>FLUENT</strong> using meters (m) as the unit of length regardless<br />

of what units were used to create them. This is so you do not have to scale<br />

the mesh in <strong>ANSYS</strong> <strong>FLUENT</strong> under <strong>ANSYS</strong> Workbench.<br />

General → Units...<br />

This displays the Set Units dialog box.<br />

Release 14.0 - © SAS IP, Inc. All rights reserved. - Contains proprietary and confidential information<br />

of <strong>ANSYS</strong>, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates.<br />

Setup and Solution<br />

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