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Hi!!!
As stated in the title, for my third year undergraduate project I would like to simulate the flight of an hummingbird. The complexity involved is greater than the one required for an undergrad thesis, therefore, my supervisor recommended me to concentrate on the wing alone. He suggested to reduce it to a small, thin ellipse and assign to it the special rotation (infinity sign alike?!). He said OpenFoam is a powerlful tool so I am getting used to it over summer in order to be ready for october. I went through the user guide provided and installed the 1.6ext where there is a rotating motion solver which may fit my case. How would you proceed? Is there a specific solver/tool which may help me in simulating the wing and extract useful data such as the variation of Lift and Drag with the movement etc? What solver or utility do you reckon is required for my case? How will I be able to produce the mesh and give to it the rotation? The part is currently a Solidworks CAD file. Any suggestion is more than welcome!! Thanks!