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Old   December 10, 2015, 09:36
Default Calculation of force in x direction - 2 formulas
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Hi to everybody.
In order to evaluate the Drag coefficent of an airplane I need the x component of the resulting force.
I found two way to calculate it in CFD-Post, however they give different results.
For example evaluating the force on the wall_nose, one of the surfaces of the airplane, I obtain:

1 - force_x()@wall_nose
The resulting force is equal to 2.99 N

2 - areaInt_x(Pressure)@wall_nose + areaInt(Wall Shear X)@wall_nose
The resulting force is equal to 4577.33 N

Why are the results so different?
Thanks in advance,
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