Propeller Simulation

Craig Paxton

We are attempting to run a CFD analysis of a aircraft propeller blade. The propeller and nacelle model is an exported IGES file from Pro/Engineer. We are having troubles creating a flow volume using the existing IGES file geometry in GAMBIT. We are following the tutorial supplied by Fluent; however it does not seem to appply to our case due to the complexity of our structure. Please advise about creating this flow volume if you have experience with this sort of problem.

Does the fact that we are exporting an IGES of an assembly pose a problem? Must we export an IGES file only from a part so that the file is seen as one solid piece (i.e. - no faces between assembled geometries)?

Thanks