Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by bethluxmoore

  1. bethluxmoore

    Poisson's ratio of 0.5

    Hi all I want to model a part of my model with incompressible material properties. I had initially thought that a Poisson's ratio of 0.5 would return an error and so assumed Nu=0.4999. However when I later tried Nu=0.5 the model ran with no errors and the deformation patterns that were seen...
  2. bethluxmoore

    Poroelastic material using CAE

    I want to assign a biphasic poroelastic material using CAE. I have isotropic permeability (k)and void ratio under permeability (material behaviour) and log bulk modulus, poisson's ratio and tensile limit under porous elastic (material behaviour). However, every time I run the model it aborts...
  3. bethluxmoore

    vortex lattice method - drag

    Hey, I've been working on designing a vortex lattice method program in matlab but am a bit stuck on how to calculate the induced drag. Do i need to calculate how much the lift vector at each bound vortex is rotated by the induced flow along it (due to the change in the effective angle of...
  4. bethluxmoore

    winglet design

    Hi, For a uni project we're trying to do a detailed design on a wing to reduce the induced drag, we have decided to use winglets to do this but have no idea where to start off for designing this. We were thinking of doing a simplified analysis of the wing and then testing the results with a more...
  5. bethluxmoore

    weissinger 7-point theory

    Hey, I've been trying to use weissinger's seven point theory as a robust way to predict the lift distribution over a swept wing, only problem is I can't seem to calculate the influence coefficients. The equation i've got is (in matrix notation): {angle of attack} = [influence...

Part and Inventory Search