Hello Everyone I am currently working on a project with my university collegues. We are building a RC-Car with aerodynamical features. As we were designing heck spoiler we started simulating the wings. First we did it with XFLR5 and then we tried combining some to get a multielement wing. But the l…

Hi @JoZi , thanks for posting It’s very hard to compare between these sorts of cases since multiple factors might drive the difference in the results. For instance: Indeed, if the reference area is not accurately measured, you’ll not be comparing apples to apples If the meshes are different, there…

Thank you very much. I have been doing research too, and maybe it is a problem, that the lift and drag direction are set like in the defaults, i have changed them to the right axis, but they are still one meter. How do i set them to the right distance ? More precisce, what are these lenghts? Thank…

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Lift and Drag of Airfoils

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igaviano July 4, 2025, 4:21pm 4

Hi @JoZi, they don’t impact the results in any way - they just set a direction vector.