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An oscillating cantilever beam

- January 18, 2025 at 7:22 am
  
  Omar Jumaah
  Subscriber
  
  Modeling an oscillating cantilever beam
  Hello everyone,
  How can I model a cantilever beam oscillating due to the water flow thermal gradient inside a duct?
  In other words, the beam-free end moves up and down based on the temperature difference. Does the shape memory alloy fit this purpose?
  How can I couple bending deflection and the temperature?
  Thanks in advanced
- January 30, 2025 at 1:38 pm
  
  Federico
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hello Omar,
  Fluent has Fluid-Structure Interactions capability: Chapter 28: Modeling Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) Within Fluent
  So in theory, you could do this in Fluent. In practice, I'm not sure that fluctuations in the hydrodynamic loads resulting from natural convection in the fluid would be sufficient to deform a beam. This would depend on the specifics of your case.

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