Hydrostatic pressure

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hi all,

         i need some assistance in applying hydrostatic pressure on shell part and curved door part of my project. It is a pressure vessel.. we have applied with some equations but in .f06 file of nastran the 'oload' values are being wrong.. it suppose to be 0 it seems, but they r giving wrong values.. pls help me out frm this..

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2013

    Hi,

     

    i think the best way is to use a pressure of type equation (e.g. Nastran/Radioss bulk -> PLOAD4).

    Since hydrostatic pressure is a function of heigth (e.g. water column), you can use 'z' (or other direction) as variable.

     

    Pressure = height * dens * g

     

    Regards,

    Mario

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