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## Goals
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Upon completing this tutorial, the user will be able to simulate the presence of a propeller using an actuator disk boundary condition, including also the swirl effects. The specific geometry chosen for the tutorial is composed by an actuator disk and a semi-infinite spinner (grid file and propeller data courtesy of Mauro Minervino, Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (CIRA)).
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Upon completing this tutorial, the user will be able to simulate the presence of a propeller using an actuator disk boundary condition, considering a variable load distribution and including also the swirl effects. The specific geometry chosen for the tutorial is composed by an actuator disk and a semi-infinite spinner (grid file and propeller data courtesy of Mauro Minervino, Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (CIRA)).
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This tutorial is referred only to the actuator disk model `VARIABLE_LOAD` implemented in the V7.0.7.
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### Background
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This test case is for an actuator disk with a semi-infinite spinner. The actuator disk is a boundary condition used to simulate the effects of rotary wings in a simple way.
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In aeronautics it is a crucial topic for the airframe integration. Nowadays, with the research on the Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP), a good actuator disk model is getting importance in order to simulate the effects of the propellers on the airframe by fast CFD analysis.
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In aeronautics it is a crucial topic for the airframe integration. Nowadays, a good actuator disk model is getting importance in order to simulate the effects of the propellers on the airframe by fast CFD analysis.
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However, the disadvantage of using an actuator disk model is that the unsteady effects are neglected.
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The actuator disk model used in this tutorial has been implemented referring to a propeller, so the input data file is suitable for a propeller, but not for a wind turbine. However, the model itself, can also be suitable for any rotary wing device.
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The actuator disk model used in this tutorial has been implemented referring to a propeller, so the input data file is suitable for a propeller, but not for a wind turbine. However, the model itself, can also be suitable for any rotary wing device. Note that the model has been tested only for propellers.
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Without going into details the mathematical model considered is the following:
% -------------------- ACTUATOR DISK BOUNDARY CONDITION --------------------------%
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ACTDISK_DOUBLE_SURFACE = YES
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*It is possible to append other propellers data at the end of the input file. Note that the order and the format of the options should not be changed.*
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The visualization of the tabular input for this case is shown in the following figure:
Figure (6): Power coefficient distribution along the non-dimensional radius.
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### Optimal Propeller Script
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As already anticipated, the [OptimalPropeller.py](https://github.com/su2code/SU2/tree/master/SU2_PY/OptimalPropeller.py) script can be used to automatically generate the propeller input data file.
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