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Physics Setup
Material, Coordinate System, and Thickness
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Summary of steps in the above video:
- Material assignment
- In Mechanical, under geometry -> assign the composite material.
- Define coord. System for the blade elements
- Create a new coordinate system, defined by global coordinates, don’t change anything else.
- Under where you specified the material, select the coordinate system just created.
- Thickness
- Select all surface bodies in the tree and change the thickness to 0.001m.
- Blade variable thickness
- Right click Geomery -> Insert thickness
- Change scoping method to named selections and choose the blade surface.
- Click the small arrow next to the yellow box and select tabular.
- Put -1m and -44.2 for x. Next to -1, input 0.1 for thickness and next to -44.2, put in 0.005m. Be careful as the order of the points might change on you.
- Root variable thickness
- Do the same thing but for the spar this time.
- The tabular data for the spar is -3, 0.1 and -44.2, 0.03.
Remote Point, Remote Displacement, Connections, Large Deflection, Rotational Velocity
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Summary of steps in the above video:
- Remote Point
- Right-click Model, insert remote point
- Select the 4 root edges for the geometry
- The point is located at the origin so input 0,0,0 for the coordinates
- Change the behavior to rigid
- Remote Displacement
- Right-click Model, insert remote displacement
- Change to scoping method to Remote Point
- Select the remote point in the yellow box
- Put in zeros for all remaining required entries
- Connections
- Delete the automatic contacts that was generated.
- Rotational Velocity
- Right-click Model, insert remote displacement
- Define by components
- Magnitude is -2.22 rad/s in the z-component
- Large deflection
- Turn on large deflection in analysis settings
- Save your project
Importing the Pressure Load
Summary of steps in the above video:
- Transfer the loads from CFD to FEA in Workbench
- Close Mechanical
- Drag the solution cell from the CFD project to the Setup cell of the FEA project
- Double-click on physics setup to go back in mechanical and update the upstream data when prompted.
- Import the pressure in Mechanical
- The imported load solution folder will appear in the tree outline. Right-click it and select insert pressure.
- For the top field, select the blade surface from FEA the wetted surface.
- For the bottom field, select the blade surface from CFD.
- The imported load solution folder will appear in the tree outline. Right-click it and select insert pressure.