Force Computation

mohmoh
edited August 2015 in Old versions
Suppose there is a fixed obstacle. How can we compute the exerted force on that obstacle by flow?

Regards

Comments

  • You have several options, however the easiest one can be:

    1) you identify the particles of the wall with Id or Mk
    2) you use PartVTK to compute the ACE of those particles (Id or Mk) so you will create XXX output files, for example in ASCII format
    3) you can load the ASCII files with a program (C++ or Matlab) where for each output file (each output instant) you will perform the summation of ACE of all those particles and you will get the Total force at that tiem step as
    FORCE(t)=SUM(ACE)*mass
    where mass is the mass of the boundary particles

    Regards
Sign In or Register to comment.