#Wind Tunnel IPAS or ??
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Martin:
Have you heard of an IPAS or Script for wind tunnels. Like, something that
lets you plug in factors such as wind speed, friction, direction, etc.? I have
a customer looking for something like this. He wants to be able to model
objects and place them in the "wind tunnel" to determine/demonstrate wind
effects.
Thanks
Ken
PS – How's things going? Hope to see you guys down there in Orange County
again some 3rd Sat soon.
Ken,
Ken,
>> Have you heard of an IPAS or Script for wind tunnels. Like, something that
lets you plug in factors such as wind speed, friction, direction, etc.?
I have a customer looking for something like this. He wants to be able to
model objects and place them in the "wind tunnel" to determine/demonstrate wind
effects.<<
If what you are looking for is something that kind'a looks like particles being
blown by wind … then disk #6 will do a nice job. But on the other hand, what
you are looking for is something that will actually compute correctly the
behavior of the wind around varios and randomly shaped objects
.. you are really talking about what is termed "Computational Fluid Dynamics"
(or CFD). I did a little bit of this when I was an Aerospace Enginner (I guess
I still am) for the Navy. Its definetly not even simple and there are an
incredible amount of variables involved. This is especially true if what you
are looking for is accurate lift and drag data at various angles and wind
speeds. Your best bet would be for him to get a commercial CFD program or one
in the public domain like VSAERO and convert the streamlines into DXF lines and
then use those in 3DS. VSAERO is a vortex-latice program (only good for large
effect modeling at high Reynolds Numbers) and is probably available on the
Internet somewhere.
Ang, President Dynamic Technologies, Inc. An Autodesk Systems Center for
Multimedia in MD
Ang,
<<Ang, President Dynamic Technologies, Inc. An Autodesk Systems Center for
Multimedia in MD>>
Wow! what a title! How do I get one like that? (G) do they sell those? 🙂
So, how are things back in Burtonsville? good, I hope.
-Kyle
Say Hi to Chris, Charles and Margret for me.
Kyle,
>> How do I get one like that? (G) do they sell those? <<
Its something new Adesk is implementing these days. They are having dealers
apply for vertical market "medalions". Being one will allow us to more easily
differentiate us from the companies who are mainly ACAD dealers at heart. Most
of the "medalions" are in the ACAD relm but they did reserve a couple for us.
Ang, President Dynamic Technologies, Inc. An Autodesk Systems Center for
Multimedia in MD
Angelo:
>>…what you are looking for is something that will actually compute correctly
the behavior of the wind around varios and randomly shaped objects… you are
really talking about what is termed "Computational Fluid Dynamics" (or CFD)..<<
The desire is to simulate an actual "wind tunnel" design. Looks like there's a
message here about an Imagine product that's going to do it.
Thanks
Ken
Ken,
>> Have you heard of an IPAS or Script for wind tunnels <<
no, sorry, I haven't. You'd probably have to fake it with particle animations
(tex/op material) mapped on morphable, lofted objects with lofted mapping. That
way the objects could morph and flex and the animations of the particles would
change shape too.
When Imagine Key Factory is released it will let do this wind tunnel effect.
Mike White [SDP]
Mike:
>>When Imagine Key Factory is released it will let do this wind tunnel
effect.<<
I assume this is will come out through Schreiber. Look forward to it.
Thanks
Ken
Yes Schreiber will be releasing is , but I couldn't say when. I don't even
know. You can give them a call 800 252 1024
Mike