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Old   May 6, 2007, 07:01
Default Ahmeds Body 2D Cd calculation
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Sinem Sas
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I'm working on Ahmed's Body flow analysis Does anyone can inform me on how to calculate the pressure drag, forexample at slanted rear end. from solve-monitor-force i found cd about 150, that is more than 100. how can i fond reasonable cd values? thanks for attention.
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Old   May 7, 2007, 15:33
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See that your reference velocity and area is set correctly. Most probably you did not change those and fluent is using the default values of 1m/s and 1m^2. You can change these under report/reference value. Anindya
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