Cycloidal Rotor: 2D CFD Simulation of Geometrical Effects on Performance; Paper Validation — Ep 01
Cycloidal Rotor: 2D CFD Simulation of Geometrical Effects on Performance; Paper Validation
- Lesson
- 01
- Run Time
- 17m 13s
- Published
- Oct 18, 2026
- Category
- Drone (UAV)
- Course Progress
- 0%
About This Lesson
- This project presents a three-dimensional transient CFD simulation of a four-blade cycloidal rotor using ANSYS Fluent with a moving mesh approach.
- The rotor uses NACA 0015 blades with prescribed pitching motion, and the flow is modeled with the SST k-omega turbulence model in an unstructured mesh domain.
- Aerodynamic loads, disk loading, and power loading are computed from the transient solution and compared with the article “Numerical Modelling of Geometrical Effects in the Performance of a Cycloidal Rotor.”
- The close agreement between the numerical results and the published data confirms the validity of the geometry, mesh, and solver settings used in this study.