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Old   June 28, 2006, 10:13
Default Help setting up Fluent for a rotor blade
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Hi all,

I am quite new to using Fluent. Have done some successfull simulations with stationary reference frame before. Now I am trying to model a helicopter rotor blade in hover. I have made several unsuccessful attempts with the help of the online manual. The results do not show the expected flow field. Can one of you wizards help me with setting it up correctly?

a) I am defining it as unsteady, coupled implicit solver with the Spalart Allmaras turbulence model. I have a wall boundary condition for the blades. I am keeping the blades in the rotating reference frame and set the rotational speed in radians per second in the absolute frame. I also have a pressure far field boundary condition for far stream conditions. Since it is hover I keep a zero Mach number for the pressure far field.

b) I have also tried to simulate the problem in another way - by keeping the blade stationary and making the fluid rotate. For this I used a rotating frame in the fluid zone and kept the wall stationary. The pressure far field boundary conditions are the same as in case (a).

Both these aproaches do not give the correct flow field. Also when I export the solution to a FieldView file format, the flow field is in the inertial reference frame. Is there a way to convert it to a rotating reference frame solution so that I can view the stream lines correctly? I am using an unstructured grid for the simulations.

Could you tell me how to set Fluent for this rotating blade in both the reference frames - rotating reference frame and inertial reference frame. I would be very grateful to fast replies, have a deadline for this in less than a week!!! Thanks!

Regards, NY.

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Old   July 5, 2006, 08:53
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Have you tried sliding mesh?
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Old   July 11, 2006, 11:56
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Yes, I have tried the sliding mesh, but it asks for an interface. There is no interface in my case between the helicopter blades. The case is just - 2 rotor blades in air and they are rotating at a constant angular velocity about the y axis. Can you tell me how I should set up the boundary conditions step by step? Thanks in advance.

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Old   July 11, 2006, 13:01
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It's not asking for an interface between the blades, it's asking for the interface between the rotating volume and the stationary volume. The sliding mesh requires two separate volumes (you would typically split a a squat cylinder around your blades from the main geometry). In this case, you would want the connected option turned off when splitting the volume. Now you have two separate volumes, and you define the faces where the two volumes touch as interfaces.

Hope this helps, and good luck, Jason
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Old   February 17, 2017, 04:49
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Hi all,

I am quite new to using Fluent. Have done some successfull simulations with stationary reference frame before. Now I am trying to model a helicopter rotor blade in hover. I have made several unsuccessful attempts with the help of the online manual. The results do not show the expected flow field. Can one of you wizards help me with setting it up correctly?

a) I am defining it as unsteady, coupled implicit solver with the Spalart Allmaras turbulence model. I have a wall boundary condition for the blades. I am keeping the blades in the rotating reference frame and set the rotational speed in radians per second in the absolute frame. I also have a pressure far field boundary condition for far stream conditions. Since it is hover I keep a zero Mach number for the pressure far field.

b) I have also tried to simulate the problem in another way - by keeping the blade stationary and making the fluid rotate. For this I used a rotating frame in the fluid zone and kept the wall stationary. The pressure far field boundary conditions are the same as in case (a).

Both these aproaches do not give the correct flow field. Also when I export the solution to a FieldView file format, the flow field is in the inertial reference frame. Is there a way to convert it to a rotating reference frame solution so that I can view the stream lines correctly? I am using an unstructured grid for the simulations.

Could you tell me how to set Fluent for this rotating blade in both the reference frames - rotating reference frame and inertial reference frame. I would be very grateful to fast replies, have a deadline for this in less than a week!!! Thanks!

Regards, NY.

Hello, I am currently having the same problem as you. I know that this project have been done ages ago, but do you happen to have found the procedure to do it? I am using the sliding mesh method but am having a lot of problem with it. Hoping to hear from you soon!
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