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April 12, 2014, 10:08

Simulation of Vertical axis wind turbine

sasasa

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I have designed and meshed a VAWT in Gambit,with different mesh zones as shown in the attached figure.The ring has to rotate as moving mesh at 3 r/s.
What are the settings required for it?Dynamic mesh-negative volume error appears when calculating. What is the udf required?

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