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[Omar Jumaah]

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

[Federico]

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.