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This tutorial considers the deformation due to aerodynamic loading of a wind turbine blade by performing a steady-state 1-way FSI (Fluid-Structure Interaction) analysis. Part 1 of the tutorial uses ANSYS Fluent to develop the aerodynamics loading on the blade. In part 2, the pressures on the wetted areas of the blade are passed as pressure load to ANSYS Mechanical which performs the Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM) to determine stresses and deformations on the blade. 

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The blade is 27m long with a rotational angular velocity of 2.43 rad/s. The upstream wind speed (or should we say the free stream velocity?) is 8 m/s. The blade is made out of an orthotropic composite material with the following properties: (Should we include all this info here or only in Part 2?) 

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