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bunya June 6, 2011 08:48

Visualizing force of a domain in potential flow
 
Hi,

My homework is to simulate two spinning cylinder in potential flow in 2D.(Flettner rotorship)
I successfully got the velocity streamlines, and pressures, which are nice and beautiful.:)
Additionally I have to visualize the resultant forces developing on the two rotating cylinder. Eg: One vector from the center of each cylinder.
Is there a way to do that in CFX-Post?

ghorrocks June 6, 2011 19:15

Yes. Use the function calculator to give you force_x, y and z.

bunya June 7, 2011 03:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghorrocks (Post 310760)
Yes. Use the function calculator to give you force_x, y and z.

And then? Can I draw vectors based on that data within Ansys, or my only chance is to use an external software (eg inkscape) to draw into exported images?

ghorrocks June 7, 2011 18:55

What are you trying to do? If you are just trying to produce an image with the total force vector shown in the right direction then use photoshop.


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