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Old   February 24, 2011, 10:32
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can someone explain me, how does Fluent calculate the pressure and viscous force ?

In the handbook in section "29.3.1 Computing Forces, Moments, and the Center of Pressure" it is only described, that the total force component is computed using the pressure and viscous force vector.

But, hoe are they calculated?? I didn't found anything about that in the manual...

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Old   February 25, 2011, 03:23
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I think pressure drag = Fx = ∑pA.nx and summation is done over the number of wall faces



For estimating viscous drag stress tensor is needed which is a function of strain tensor obtained by appropriate viscous assumption
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@lalupp:

Since you've mentioned, I'm wondering if there are direct ways to output the force and moment during the transient calculation. Let's say per time step for example. It seems to me that we could only use thoses options in "monitor" panel and yet it is restricted to Cl, Cd and Mx only. If you have any thoughts for that please help me out...
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Did you find out a direct way to output the forces on a body wrt time ????????

All I can do using FLUENT is to get Cl and Cd using Reference values. Also if the reference values have length & depth then why is there area mentioned. In calculating the Cl or Cd what does FLUENT take into account, length and depth or the ARea ?????

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Did you find out a direct way to output the forces on a body wrt time ????????

All I can do using FLUENT is to get Cl and Cd using Reference values. Also if the reference values have length & depth then why is there area mentioned. In calculating the Cl or Cd what does FLUENT take into account, length and depth or the ARea ?????

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to have the forces, you have to go to results-->reports---> forces.

from there you can set that you are displayed on the console or grouped in a file. they will come splitted between viscous and pressure. you can avarage them in time, fft'em, everything.
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Reporting the forces displays the force (viscous+pr.) at a particular time.

How do I get a plot of the forces vs time. Like how we have it for Cl vs time or Cd vs time.

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Dear,

Please search my post in this forum. I have answered myself in a series of discussion.

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Hi,

I am not clearly about Pressure Resistance, Viscous resistance and total resistance reporting by Fluent. So, In Fluent Total resistance = Viscous R + Pressure R but flowing theory of resistance Viscous R = Pressure R + Frictional R.
What is mean Viscous R and Total resistance in Fluent ?

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