Reply To: Energy production with buoy attached to piston with rack and pinion

[rnegrete]

Thank you Erik. 

I will look into it. in the meantime... are any of these options viable?

• Making a 3 way system coupling simulation Fluent - Mechanical - Maxwell?
• Using the electric or electric/heat analysis systems whithin mechanical to provide the opposing force?
• Setting some variable force acting against buoyancy that's proportional to buoyancy iteslf in mechanical? How could that be done? What's the formula for that?

Outside of Ansys, how can this be solved using formulas? preferably by timesteps, but a complete cycle would also shed some light into my analysis.

BR