[Nawaf_Ar]

Hi everyone.

This is about the case of a plane (external aerodynamics). I know I can run simulations on it for varying angles such as angle of attack, angle of sideslip, and rolling all through manipulating my inlets, and outlets, and their velocities using one single mesh. But what about the angle of deflection (delta) of my control surfaces such as my ailerons, rudders, and elevators?

I know I can do this by creating mulitple meshes for each case, and to make it easier, interpolate the results onto each other (in some cases), but is there a way to do this WITHOUT having ~10 different meshes (for each control surface defelction)?

Is there a way for me to "move" the surfaces without actually moving them? Like in CFD where the plane is stationary and the air is moving, so the plane is "moving"?

I did something similar for propellers where I had a rotational frame of reference (a disk of air rotating at a certain velocity), is there something similar for this? Like an air "defelction" region instead of rotating/moving region?

For reference this is subsonic incompressible flow (M<0.3).

Thanks!