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Andreas Gkertsos
19 Jan, 2012 08:15 PM
1. Step 1:
First af all we pick a part that will be rotated... (i am using a part that i have designed)
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2. Step 2:
then we go to a plane, and we create a cylinder that contains the part we want to rotate...
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3. Step 3:
And we extrude it WITHOUT merging result... This is the volume that will be rotated...
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4. Step 4:
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5. Step 5:
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6. Step 6:
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7. Step 7:
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8. Step 8:
we click on the arrows on the right side and click on analysis type... this type indicates that we are not going to give fluid boundaries (speed pressure etc) but we are
gonna calculate them...
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9. Step 9:
We choose external flow and we check both boxes on the right side... we click on the rotation analysis... (our propeller will be rotating)
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next..
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next...
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Finish... (if you want, you can adjust the resolution number on the top depending on the cpu you have)
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Next we edit the computational domain... (This depends on the cpu you have... if you have a powerfull pc, you can leave it at max.... but if you don;t want to wait
for a lifetime, you can reduce it...)
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RUN..
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We select the surfaces that are in contact with the fluid and we set the number of the particles used... (Again this is up to you cpu speed.. My i7 tuned to 2.9ghz took
about 4-5 minutes to do a 200 particles calculation)
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done....:)
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karam rov
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Yannis Varsamos
Excelent tutorial! I adjusted it in order to calculate the flow around a vessels hull with rotating propellers and worked like a charm, only by setting the hull as a wall
(boundary condition)
Jose Cabili
how about if the wind will be the one to turn the blade as if in wind turbine. can you please share how to simulate a wind turbine with rotating region. thanks in
advance.
Jose O. Cabili/josechinoboy@gmail.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-uDEjYSes&t=218s
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