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November 24, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Federico
Ansys Employee
Hello Nate,
the area-weigthed average tangential velocity will really only work for a circular motion of a cylindrical domain. If you know the radius and tangential velocity of this motion, you can work out the angular velocity. You really only need 1 point that has these two quantities over time. The area-averaging is only to reduce the noise in this calculation.
You can read about how Tangential velocity is defined here: 41.2. Velocity Reporting Options (ansys.com)
In your case, with airfoils, I still recommend using the data from Motion History.