Urgent help with a project;

[brennerator]

So Im trying to put a turbine assembly on a car to generate electricity when slowing down ie. braking. This hwould allow a gas car to recoup some electricity when braking. Is there a way through CAD to simulate the energy generated by a turbine in a certain wind speed? Could I test out different turbines with this? Im sure there is some program to do this but I could not find one.

[MrForbes]

I'm trying to imagine what you have in mind, and can't do it.....how about a sketch to help explain it?

It sounds like you're trying to make a hybrid gas/electric car, the hard way.

[Alan Anderson]

Is there a way through CAD to simulate the energy generated by a turbine in a certain wind speed?

I doubt anyone makes a CAD program that also does CFD (computational fluid dynamics).

A wind turbine is probably one of the least efficient ways to recover energy from vehicle speed. You might consider connecting the input of a generator to a rubber wheel that can be pressed against one of the drive wheels as a dynamic brake.

[mgreenley]

Dassault Systemes makes two CAD suites that allow for CFD.

If you have the full version of Solidworks (link (http://www.3ds.com/products-solutions/solidworks/overview/)), you can use the COSMOSFloWorks add-in to preform a flow analysis on a part you've made in solidworks. The other Dassault product available is CATIA (link (http://www.3ds.com/products-solutions/plm-solutions/catia/overview/)) . CATIA requires the Fluent (link (http://www.fluent.com/software/index.htm)) plugin, but provided that you have both, CATIA can also preform CFD.

Hope this helps,

Mike