Hello everyone I am simulating a wind turbine using SolidWorks Flow Simulation at certain wind speeds and wanted to find the value of moment to find Power. I wanted to know the direction of moment (surface goals in x,y,z direction) acting on the turbine if the air is coming from z direction.
Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi,
To calculate the moment, you can choose every surface relative to the rotor part, and select the moment in direction z.
Though I would have done differently, with a global goal, even if it's including the bottom part of the wind turbine ; so you can compare both values if they're significantly different.
To have to the sign of the moment (the direction) you can use the right-hand rule.
Hope it helps.