Solar panel deflection due to wind!

Johan_Dahlberg_2011
Johan_Dahlberg_2011 Altair Community Member
edited October 22 in Altair HyperWorks

Outlook:

  • Inspire CAD to genereate model. Simlab meshing and solution set-up in easy GUI for CFD and Structural analysis.
  • Mapped pressure from CFD to Structure. This results can be used to evaluate the structure and improve the design of the panel.

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This article includes:

  • 1 Inspire model with the solar panel.
    • Altair Inspire version V2023.1
  • 2 ready-to-use Altair Simlab model for CFD and structure
    • Altair Simab version is V2023.0
    • The Unit System is in kg, m, s
  • A report with:
    • Inspire layout
    • CFD set-up
    • Structural set-up
    • Analysis of simulation results. 

Pre-Requisite

Altair Inspire 2023.1 & Simlab 2023.0 or later are needed. 

Usage/Installation Instructions

Download Altair_2axis_solar_demo_kit.zip

Unzip and follow the steps in the Attached powerpoint.