In this tutorial I will conduct the analysis of a NACA2412 Airfoil using ANSYS fluent student version. I will also show how to change the angle of attack of the airfoil, and how that affects the simulation & results.

00:00 00:53 Intro
00:53 5:30 Creating Airfoil Curve File
5:30 15:02 Creating Geometry: Airfoil import & C type domain
15:02 16:48 How to save ANSYS files
16:48 22:03 Meshing
22:03 27:13 Y+ check
28:23 33:24 Simulation set up
33:24 34:58 Solving
34:58 39:45 Comparison with experimental data
39:45 44:20 Plotting results
44:20 52:03 Changing angle of attack
52:03 53:20 Plotting y+
53:20 Outro


Video mentioned by Anthony T that helped with mesh sizing:    • ANSYS Fluent NACA 4412 (or NACA 0012)...  

Experimental data:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930...

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