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dcb · 09-08-2011, 02:25 PM

openfoam will need it's own thread (forum?) but one thing that is interesting is that once you have a 3d model (mesh) you can analyse the forces on the tiny individual panels, and it should be possible to just look at the forces for, say, the tail section and see if they result in a forward vector (assuming openfoam is up to the task of detecting this phenomenon).

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