Working out the Lift/Drag Force

- February 28, 2018 at 12:58 pm
  
  duncan1098
  Subscriber
  
  Hi, I am a student and new to Ansys CFX. Been using it to analyse an aerofoil for my dissertation project. Managed to mesh and produce a final solution with the aerofoil at AoA 8 degrees at 30m/s. However I am struggling with obtaining the lift/drag data from the aerofoil. How would I do it? Any help would be appreciated, thanks
- February 28, 2018 at 10:27 pm
  
  Raef.Kobeissi
  Subscriber
  
  Hi,
  
  I am not sure about CFX but in Fluent you can get that information from Reports>Forces and you select the direction (axis) of drag and lift. the values can be displayed on Console showing pressure and viscous forces in the appropriate directions.
- March 1, 2018 at 11:33 am
  
  vganore
  Ansys Employee
  
  Here is the tutorial showing how to calculate drag and lift force in CFX.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6nLbNQAcIk