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Pythonic interface to MAPDL
https://mapdl.docs.pyansys.com
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CFD Test #55

Closed jordanott closed 5 years ago

jordanott commented 5 years ago

I'm interested in creating a 3D airfoil from a set of points. My plan is to make multiple planes with different NACA equations on each plane and then loft them together. For example, the first plane would have the set of points for a NACA-0012 airfoil and then the second plane would have the points for a NACA-2412 airfoil and so on for roughly ten different planes. I then want to determine the coefficient of lift and drag from a 3D CFD test. Is that possible in pyansys? If so, how would I set this up and what method would I use to actually run the CFD?

akaszynski commented 5 years ago

Right now pyansys is limited to structural results and not CFD, though it's something we'll likely add in the future.

There are many strategies you could use to generate a structured mesh to run a CFD test, but much of it depends on the software you have available and if you'd like to go the open source route if you'd rather not pay for using ANSYS or another commercial mesher. Sadly, you won't be able to use pyansys for either mesh generation or for the solution and post processing as CFD isn't implemented.