I am looking to design and further running simulations and analyse a low speed shaft of a typical wind turbine. In particular I am looking to design the shaft diameter and length and any other connection components such bearings, keys and so on, for a given torque and rotational speed requirement in a transmission system of a wind turbine. Do you recommend any good software to run FEA simulations for validation analysis purposes.
Any suggestions or comments, I will much appreciate.
For general simulation-driven design, I recommend ANSYS Workbench as it has a lesser learning curve then other software such as Altair HyperWorks, Abaqus or COMSOL. While they are good, it requires an expert in CAE to model and simulate your problem. If you have someone with a ton of expertise in solving PDEs, open-source codes like FEniCS can also do the job.
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