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In this section of the tutorial, the blade geometry is imported, a mesh is created around the blade and the Fluent solver is then used to find the aerodynamics loading on the blade, the fluid streamlines and the torque generated. We will use air at standard conditions (15 degree celcius). Its density is 1.225 kg/m^3 and its viscosity is 1.7894e-05 kg/(m*s).

Using periodicity, we will simulate the flow around one blade and extrapolate the solution to two more blades in order to visualize the results for a 3 blade rotor. Here's a sneak peak of a particular result that you will obtain at the end of this tutorial. The figure is showing a pressure contour plot on the back surface of the blades.

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