Calculate Thrust/Drag and torque from Phoenics
 

Hi. I've been doing some testing in PHOENICS and i need to calculate the Thrust/drag and torque generated from a certain part of my imported profile. Is there any way to do this, as from the results I have only got pressure in (Pa). Any help would be great. Thank you

Re: Calculate Thrust/Drag and torque from Phoenics
 

Dr. Mike once showed me how to do this - he used GROUND coding - I'm not sure there's a good way to do it OOB in Phoenics - maybe INFORM? Here's the GROUND code he gave me: (I *hope* you understand FORTRAN better than I)

C--- GROUP 19. Special calls to GROUND from EARTH C

19 GO TO (191,192,193,194,195,196,197,198,199,1910,1911),IS C 191 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 1 ---- Start of time step.

RETURN 192 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 2 ---- Start of sweep.

RETURN 193 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 3 ---- Start of iz slab.

RETURN 194 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 4 ---- Start of iterations over slab.

RETURN 1911 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 11---- After calculation of convection C fluxes for scalars, and of volume C fractions, but before calculation of C scalars or velocities

RETURN 199 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 9 ---- Start of solution sequence for C a variable

RETURN 1910 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 10---- Finish of solution sequence for C a variable

RETURN 195 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 5 ---- Finish of iterations over slab.

RETURN 196 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 6 ---- Finish of iz slab.

RETURN 197 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 7 ---- Finish of sweep.

CALL GETPTC('OB1',GTYPE,JXF,JXL,JYF,JYL,JZF,JZL,JTF,JTL )

GSUMFX=0.0

GSUMFY=0.0

LBARE=LBNAME('AREE')

LBARN=LBNAME('AREN')

DO JZ=JZF,JZL

JP1 = ANYZ(P1,JZ)

JARE = ANYZ(LBARE,JZ)

JARN = ANYZ(LBARN,JZ)

L0P1 = L0F(JP1)

L0ARE= L0F(JARE)

L0ARN= L0F(JARN) Compute Drag Force

JX1=JXF-1

DO JY=JYF,JYL

J=(JX1-1)*NY+JY

GSUMFX=GSUMFX+F(L0P1+J)*F(L0ARE+J)

ENDDO

JX1=JXL+1

DO JY=JYF,JYL

J=(JX1-1)*NY+JY

GSUMFX=GSUMFX-F(L0P1+J)*F(L0ARE+J)

ENDDO Compute Lift Force

DO JX=JXF,JXL

J=(JX-1)*NY+JYF-1

GSUMFY=GSUMFY+F(L0P1+J)*F(L0ARN+J)

ENDDO

DO JX=JXF,JXL

J=(JX-1)*NY+JYL+1

GSUMFY=GSUMFY-F(L0P1+J)*F(L0ARN+J)

ENDDO

ENDDO Compute Dynamic head

GVIN =RG(1)

GHIN =RG(2)

GHEAD=0.5*RHO1*GVIN*GVIN

GAPRJ=ZWLAST*GHIN Compute Drag and Lift Coefficients

GCD=GSUMFX/(GHEAD*GAPRJ)

GCL=GSUMFY/(GHEAD*GAPRJ)

IF(STEADY) THEN

WRITE(14,*) ' ISWP = ',ISWEEP,' CD = ',GCD,' CL = ',GCL,

1 ' FX = ',GSUMFX,' FY = ',GSUMFY

ELSE

IF(ISWEEP.EQ.LSWEEP-1) THEN

JV1 = ANYZ(V1,IZMON)

L0V1 = L0F(JV1)

GV1MON= F(L0V1+IYMON+(IXMON-1)*NY)

JP1 = ANYZ(P1,IZMON)

L0P1 = L0F(JP1)

GP1MON= F(L0P1+IYMON+(IXMON-1)*NY)

WRITE(85,1981) ISTEP,TIM,GCD,GCL,GSUMFX,GSUMFY,GV1MON,GP1MON

ENDIF

ENDIF 1981 FORMAT(I4,1P7E11.3)

RETURN 198 CONTINUE C * ------------------- SECTION 8 ---- Finish of time step. C

RETURN