{"id":161498,"date":"2021-08-22T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-set-up-fluent-for-a-drone-propeller\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T01:46:11","slug":"how-to-set-up-fluent-for-a-drone-propeller","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-set-up-fluent-for-a-drone-propeller\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set up fluent for a drone propeller"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello Everyone.<\/p>\n

I'm doing some experimenting to improve my understanding of fluent. I'm trying to run a simulation of a propeller that will be on a quadcopter drone using Ansys Fluent. I hope to obtain thrust force, airspeed, Kt etc. <\/p>\n

My issue is I'm a little lost on how to set this up, I have been following many tutorials online so I have my meshing complete, I have a rotating domain and a larger static domain encompassing the propeller. Setting up fluent is where I encounter some issues, I am unsure if I am supposed to use a steady-state or transient simulation to obtain values. I enter in an RPM and set up the simulation to record force values but the forces are very small, I'm expecting somewhere in the 30N range but it is nowhere near that. I see some tutorials enter in an inlet and outlet airspeed but i don't have such values to me. I wish to gain these parameters given the propeller's rotation speed in normal air at SATP conditions.<\/p>\n

If anyone has any experience in this and would be willing to give me some insight id really appreciate it I wanna get better and learn from this.<\/p>\n

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