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Old   December 4, 2020, 06:52
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Hi all,

Beginner question,

I'm doing a centrifugal fan simulation, there should be no inlet velocity other than that caused by the moving blades (so nothing is pushing air into the inlet), so should I set my inlet velocity to zero?

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