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January 30, 2015, 11:07 |
"constant power" inlet?
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Another newbie hits the pavement: Hello cfd-community
I searched the forum (and outside) but couldn't get a thourough answer: I'm working on an aerodynamic structure that is driven by a fan and produces lift (very vague, but i wouln't like to go into further details about it). Now I'm hoping to optimize this a bit through cfd. Therefore I want to compare the lifting force of several slightly modified versions against each other. To make the lift-values comparable, i need to ensure that the flow through my models is driven by an equal amount of power - like i did in my real-world experiments by controlling the input power to the fan. In my first attempt I simply used a constant-velocity inlet, but looking at the inlet pressure values in paraview revealed that there is a huge spread in average inlet pressure amongst the models. At constant velocity this would mean different power-levels for a (hypothetical) fan driving the flow. My first (real newbie) question: Is it ok to look at pressure values directly at an inlet-patch to calculate power, or should this be done a bit downstream on internal cells? I already realized that the TotalPressure BC would be more in my favour, but what I really need is some kind of "constant pumping power" inlet. So here's my second question: Is there an "open-foam-way" to achieve this? I don't ask you to solve this problem for me, just a hint if I'm simply overseeing something. I had a look at the various derived BCs in the code - none of them seemed to fit directly. Maybe the fan-patch could be used for it with an apropriate function for the pressure-drop. |
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fan bc, inlet bc |
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