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December 14, 2013, 07:49 |
Flow past rotating cylinder: Problem with ForeCoeffs
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Raphael Ouillon
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Hello,
I am currently studying the effects of a rotating cylinder in a low Reynolds uniform flow. I need to extract the lift and drag coefficients on the cylinder and I therefore use the forcecoeffs function. The problem is that in 3D simulations, the flow displays a spanwise instability along the cylinder. Since the drag and lift are integrated on the whole cylinder, the resulting Cd and Cl are not representative of the Cd and Cl at a specific location of the cylinder. The resulting drag and lift curves are indeed very noisy and random in appearance whereas the local drag and lift curve are expected to present a clear oscillation with a fixed Strouhal number. My question is the following: Is it possible to extract the lift and drag curve at each spanwise location along the cylinder using ForceCoeffs instead of the average lift and drag? If not, is it possible to create a "line" patch at a given location and to compute the forces on this patch instead of on the whole cylinder patch? I hope my problem is clear and if not, please tell me and I'll of course provide more information. Thank you very much in advance for your help! Raphael |
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forcecoeffs, lift and drag, openfoam |
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