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Old   August 6, 2009, 07:10
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I simulated the flow over a sphere. Now I would like to make the sphere rotating like a tennis ball. Is there any predefined boundary condition to simulate this? I would just to impose a constant tangential velocity to the sphere patch and anything would be ok,

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v1.6 gives a new boundary condition named rotatingWallVelocity.

Also you can just create an application which calculates the velocity component for each point if you're on v1.5
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Old   August 18, 2009, 01:02
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HI how you did rotation to shere by using tangential velocity condition.. please give me hint as i plan to use rotating domain in CFX11 but it uses only fluid domain to be rotating...

Any hint for the same
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Old   October 5, 2009, 07:08
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Sorry,
I abandonend the problem for now even if I am still interseted in imposing rotatingWallVelocity boundary conditions...
sorry for late,
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