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July 8, 2016, 14:31 |
Cylinder projected area (Cd)
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Max Vorstadt
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Hi! I have a cylinder perpendicular to the flow and I was wondering which is the projected area (Aref) that should be written down at the forceCoeffs function file in order to compute the drag coefficient.
The function looks like this: Code:
patches ( Cylinder ); rhoName rhoInf; rhoInf 1; liftDir (0 0 1); dragDir (1 0 0); CofR (0 0 0); pitchAxis (0 1 0); magUInf 26; lRef 0.120; Aref 0.0288; Thanks in advance! Max. |
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