2D Axisymmetric airfoil cannot report lift!!!
 

G'Day

I'm trying to compare the stall behaviours or an aerofoil in standard planar configuration and Axisymmetric configuration to see if the stall point changes significantly. I am trying to design a difuser for a wind turbine for my bachelor thesis.

The probem is, whist I have had no problem reporting the lift force created by an aerofoil in standard 2D configuration, in axisymmetric setup the Y component of force just reports as zero. This is not physical. Unless of course it is reporting the net force for the whole diffuser ring.

Whilst I do understand the conundrem that in axysymetric configuration the 'lift' force is radial and not strictly in the cartesian Y direction, it is in the Y direction according the slither modeled by the mesh so I expect it should be possible to report lift. But I cannot find any other way to report forces from an axysymetric simulation.

Is there any way I can report force in the radial direction? I can understand it may be be in N/rad or somesuch unit

Really? No-one's got anything???