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Old   May 19, 2015, 00:47
Default Pitching Airfoil angle of attack
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Hello formers
I have been doing an airfoil pitching case in OpenFOAM and I was able to do the pitching from angle 0 to -1. But I have to do a pitching case such that the airfoil starts from 0 to -1 and then to +1 and so on in an oscillatory form.

My dynamicMeshDict for 0 to -1 is given below

Code:
dynamicFvMesh      dynamicMotionSolverFvMesh;

motionSolverLibs ("libsixDoFRigidBodyMotion.so");

solver            sixDoFRigidBodyMotion;

sixDoFRigidBodyMotionCoeffs
{
    patches         (wing);
    innerDistance   0.3;
    outerDistance   1;

    mass                60;
    centreOfMass    (0.25 0 0);
    momentOfInertia (0.09408 0.17475 1.5296);
    orientation
    (
        0.999847695 -0.017452406 0
        0.017452406 0.999847695 0
        0 0 1
    );
    angularMomentum   (0 0 0.25);
    g                            (0 -9.81 0);
    rhoName                 rhoInf;
    rhoInf                      1;
    report                      on;

    constraints
    {
        yLine
        {
            sixDoFRigidBodyMotionConstraint line;
            centreOfRotation    (0.25 0 0);
            direction                 (0 1 0);
        }

        zAxis
        {
            sixDoFRigidBodyMotionConstraint axis;
            axis                (0 0 1);
        }
    }

    restraints
    {
        verticalSpring
        {
            sixDoFRigidBodyMotionRestraint linearSpring;

            anchor               (0.25 0 0);
            refAttachmentPt (0.25 0 0);
            stiffness            4000;
            damping             2;
            restLength          0;
        }

        axialSpring
        {
            sixDoFRigidBodyMotionRestraint linearAxialAngularSpring;

            axis                 (0 0 1);
            stiffness          700;
            damping           0.5;
            referenceOrientation $orientation;
        }
    }
}
Can anybody tell me how I can generate an oscillatory airfoil pitching in OpenFOAM.
The solver I am using is rhoPimpleDyMFoam.
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