Sphere and wing bug wipers air resistance

Hi witor,
answers to your questions.

  1. unless you have any validation data and already did very much work into mesh analysis I wouldn’t suggest you change the numeric values and with that values for k -omega.

  2. I would usually suggest using wall function since full resolution of walls usually takes too many cells. With wall function, you can save a good amount of cells and be still very accurate.

  3. In terms of drag SimScale does take both pressure and viscous effects in account when calculating the reactive force. You can find out more about force coefficients here:
    How To Analyze the Pitch, Lift, and Drag Coefficients | SimScale

  4. If I’m right you are of by 5% which is very good for a sphere since spheres are actually quite tricky to solve since the drag of a sphere is very dependent on the Reynolds number which can bring various transient effect with them.

I hope I could help you with your question.
Best regards
Sebastian