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T.Matrix October 3, 2012 02:00

How to calculate total force?
 
when I finished the case "cavity" using the solver icoFoam, the pressure and velocity distribution are all known. That's to say, the pressure acting on movingWall is also computed. However, how do we sample these pressure value on movingWall and calculate the total force?

Thanks for help.

kev4573 October 11, 2012 10:45

Take a look at the functionObjects in OpenFOAM. I think the motorBike tutorial uses the forceCoeffs function, as an example.

T.Matrix October 14, 2012 00:15

Thanks. It is really useful to calculate the total forces on a face.


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