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Old   September 27, 2018, 10:04
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Hello!

I am running the motorBike tutorial, and I notice that the lift coefficient Cl converges to a positive value (about 0.06). In system/forceCoeffs, liftDir is defined as the upward direction:

liftDir (0 0 1);

so I would have expected to obtain a negative value for Cl. Am I missing something, or is the resolution simply too low to yield an accurate estimate of the downforce?

I am running the case exactly as it is distributed in v1806. I haven't run a mesh-dependence study yet.
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