Simulate Flow Over a Rotating Plate
 

Hi everyone,

This is my first post as I am a new member here.

I am trying to simulate an opening of a bascule bridge and study the flow over it in Fluent. I simplified the problem by allowing the bridge to be represented by a flat plate and I used Reynold's Number scaling to scale my dimension and wind velocity.

My objective is to create a 2D, transient, Fluent study in which the "bridge" rotates -at one end - to an angle of approximately 60 degrees.

I am having issues in creating the geometry and setting up the rotating body. Does anyone have an idea of how I should approach this problem.

Thank you for your input

Hello,

I believe we are adressing a similar problem and I would be also interested to get some guidelines for the modeling and simulation.

Thanks