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coupled analysis elements

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sosat1012

Agricultural
Jul 25, 2008
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I am doing a coupled field analysis, an interaction between wind and a structure (flotran-structural). It is a 2D analysis. The structure though is a panel covered by a very thin (1mm thin) and flexible material(a plastic polyethylene film) pinned at both sides that means that dofs are ux, uy and rotz. i need to find out what is the maximum displacement of the film. If it was a 3D analysis i could use one of the shell elements but now that is 2D and the one dimension is thickness i'm a little confused... what are the proper elements for better simulation ? any proposals of different analysis?

wind structure
----> '''
----> |
----> | film height = 3 (pinned up and down NOT
----> | FIXED)
----> |
----> '''
film thickness = 0.001
 
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