Once you have defined the geometry, discretization and zone properties for your Cell network, you are ready to instruct the CellNet Generator to create the Cells. Before doing so, you must complete one final step:
•Specify whether or not you wish to Create diffusive links. If the Create diffusive links checkbox is cleared, only advective mass flux links between the Cells will be created. If the Create diffusive links checkbox is checked, diffusive mass flux links are created between all adjacent Cells.
Note: As is the case for
advective flux links, diffusive flux links can only be created in the X and Y
(or Z and R) directions. Diagonal links are not created.
Note: If Vx and
Vy are empty for all zones, no advective mass flux links will be
created.
Once you have completed this step, you create the Cell network by pressing the Generate Cells button. The Cells are created in the same Container as the CellNet Generator element, and are named as follows:
ZoneID_cc_rr
where ZoneID is the name of the Cell's zone, rr is the "row number", starting from the lowest Y (or R) direction value, and cc is the "column number", starting from the lowest X (or Z) direction value.
For example, if the geometry was defined as follows:
and all Cells were in a single zone (with a ZoneID of ABC), the Cell network that would be created would look like this:
Note that the first row is the bottom row (since the Y-direction was specified to be from bottom to top), and the first column is the left-most (since the X-direction was specified to be from left to right).
GoldSim inserts the dimensions of the Cell in the Description field for the Cell. For example, for Planar geometry, the Description for ABC_X1Y2 would look like this:
All of the necessary Media quantities (volumes and masses) and mass flux link properties are automatically generated and inserted into the appropriate fields of the Cell property dialogs.
Once the Cells have been generated, you will need to manually add any required boundary conditions and mass flux links to connect the network to other pathways and elements in your model.