Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Aerodynamics of an Airfoil
Thamodharan B , Shaik Mohamed Nagutha G,
Sacraties A , Devaki P
Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering
Hindusthan Institute of Technology
Coimbatore,Tamilnadu,India - 641032.
thamodharan247@gmail.com
Moses Devaprasanna M
Associate Professor - Department of Aeronautical,
Hindusthan Institute of Technology
Coimbatore,Tamilnadu,India - 641032
moses_1981m@rediffmail.com
I.
INTRODUCTION
The basic forces acting in aircraft are Lift, Drag, Thrust &
Weight. Research are well in advance to improve thrust and
weight reduction. To enhance the effect of aerodynamic forces
(Lift & Drag) research has be made only to design new airfoil
profiles. Research to alter the geometry of existing airfoil are
less in observation. Incase of subsonic civil aircraft instead of
creating a own indigenous airfoil for every design, it would be
economical if they concentrate on altering existing design. The
effect of dimple will increase the angle of stall by delaying the
flow separation. Instead of selecting a basic NACA series
airfoil, we went a step ahead to choose a airfoil profile of
successful aircraft. Boeing 737-300 aircraft which comprises
of B737 midspan airfoil is a first classic variant among its
series. They had made 1988 successful deliveries. We are
eager to analyze our idea on such a successful profile.
Figure 2 - Flow over the golf ball with and without dimples
A. Pre-Processor
Preprocessing involves creation of geometry and mesh
around the body over which the flow takes place. The type of
boundaries of flow domain (Table 1) are also specified in
preprocessor. Creation of 2D model of flow domain, meshing
of flow domain and the specification of boundary conditions
are carried out using the preprocessor GAMBIT.
II.
BACKGROUND
EDGES
TYPE
Inlet
Velocity Inlet
Exit
Pressure Outlet
Airfoil
Wall
B. Solver
This step involves defining type of flow, turbulence model,
boundary conditions. We carried out these steps using
FLUENT.
Table 2 - Boundary conditions
Figure 4 - Comparison of grids with 0.5, 0.75, 1.0mm as first cell height
PARTICULARS
CONDITION
Inlet
20 m/s
Density
1.225 kg/m3
Viscosity
1.7894e-5 kg/ms
Temperature
288K
AOA
CL
CD
Reynolds Number
1369174
0.12613
0.01012
Turbulence Model
Spalart Allmaras
0.66589
0.013803
10
1.1611
0.02177
11
1.2465
0.025411
12
1.3247
0.028998
13
1.3869
0.033809
14
1.4136
0.041581
15
1.3073
0.062411
16
0.83054
0.17085
20
0.2929
0.12176
VARIABLES
VALUES
Y+
45
0.75 mm
V.
RESULTS
C. Post Processor
The Contour (fig 5), Vector, XY plots (fig 6) were obtained
using FLUENT. The comparison graph were also obtained.
IV.
GRID INDEPENDENCY
VI.
CONCLUSION
VII.
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Figure 8 - Predicted results of CL vs AOA
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