{"id":369304,"date":"2024-05-31T02:55:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T02:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-do-i-use-force-function-in-report-definition-in-ansys-fluent-functions\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T02:55:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T02:55:23","slug":"how-do-i-use-force-function-in-report-definition-in-ansys-fluent-functions","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-do-i-use-force-function-in-report-definition-in-ansys-fluent-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I use  force function in report definition in ANSYS Fluent Functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>(Force([&#8216;location&#8217;])&mdash;calculates the force on the location(s) specified (should be walls) as a vector.<\/span><br \/><span>The expression may include porous walls)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I want to use the force function above to extract <strong>Fx, Fy, Fz<\/strong>&nbsp; over a small banded blade in radial section in other to get the normal force and tangential force.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to use the function in the report definition to get that done&nbsp; but it is having error when I specify the location to compute the force., maybe it want me to specify vector but unsure on how to do that.<\/p>\n<p>The error is :<span> Mismatch with input type. Expected type is double, Expression type is double vector<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-369304","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-fluent-cfd-ansys-1","topic-tag-ansys-fluent","topic-tag-external-aerodynamics","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-wind-turbine-cfd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["307030","8124"],"_bbp_author_ip":["184.24.96.207"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1413"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["369304"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["8124","307030"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["369916"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["369916"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-06-05 12:44:28"]},"test":"oluwadsrclarkson-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/369304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/369304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}