Modeling variable-span, multi-material airfoil sections in VABS

Modeling & Simulation VABS
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I am designing a wing with a NACA 4412 airfoil, and my focus is the cross-sectional design. I need to model two different materials within each cross section, and the cross-section desing varies along the span. I can create the cross-section meshes in Gmsh, but I am not sure how to complete the full workflow in VABS to obtain the cross-sectional properties that can be used in NATASHA.

Is there anyone who can guide me through this process or share any videos, examples, or documentation that could help me move forward?

Thank you!

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This may help: Analysis of cross-sections of a blade linking to RCAS — iVABS 0.10 documentation. The key here is simply a data pipeline: Gmsh output → VABS input and VABS output → NATASHA input.

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Thanks Prof. Su.

I read what you sent. Right now I have license issue. I will check the process when my problem got solved.