Center of Pressure in Nastran

[shipley01]

Does anyone know if there is a function to calculate the center of pressure over a number of surfaces in Nastran or Patran?

 

[flapper]

for calculating center of pressure you need to have a aero/fluid dynamic solver which nastran or the other software you mentioned does not have. SO you cannot find thecnter of pressure using that.

you should try using some cfd softwares like fluent, ICEMCFD or cosmo-flowworks (it comes with solidworks).