<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><div>Hi NEKs,<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>It has been a long time since I came up with something.</div><div><br></div><div>Here I have a problem and I just would like to know that whether have you experienced it before?</div><div><br></div><div>I am running a simulation of self-sustained pitching of NACA0012 at Re 62000 and at the initial steps itself, the solution diverges due to a rapid increment of velocity at the tip of the trailing edge.</div><div>I compute the torque from elastic axis (which is 18.6% from leading edge) and used equation of motion to compute the mesh velocity to pitch the NACA0012.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>My Moment of Inertia is 0.0014, Stiffness is 0.3 and Damping Coefficient is 0.002.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>In the begeinning of simulation the torq increases rapidly and gradually the mesh velocity increases and collpase.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I divided the moment by 10 just to see at least my code works. And it worked. But as the moment is divided by 10, I get a less amplitude of pitching .<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>So my question is have you experienced like this before? If yes could you please tell me why it because of?</div><div><br></div><div>If not, What can be the reason for a large velocity at the tip of trailing edge? <br></div><div><br></div><div>NOTE : I have taken air as the fluid so I think the added mass effect is negligible. But do you think is there any possibility of that?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Any ideas are welcome.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Sijo GEORGE</div></div></div></body></html>