Project 4 : Viscous Effect

How to use XFOIL

[associated with NotesPJ4.txt]
EAE127
 Download XFOIL
http://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/xfoil/
Part I.Run XFOIL and type
naca0012
type ‘gdes’ to plot profile and ‘hard’
to output plot.ps
type ‘return key’ to exit from ‘gdes’
routine. Type ‘quit’ to close XFOIL

You can see the list of operation by

typing c> ?
Rename plot.ps ex) naca0012profile.ps
and double click naca0012profile.ps

CAE lab. has GSview and you can hard copy it

by ‘Alt’+ ‘Print Screen’
Download s1223.dat from class web.
Run XFOIL and type
‘load s1223.dat’
Then repeat ‘gdes’ to output the
geometry
 Part II. a Run XFOIL (inviscid)
type: ‘naca0012’, ‘oper’ to enter the
calculation mode and solve 0
incidence solution. Type ‘alfa 0’.

Repeat several times to type ‘alfa 0’ if the

PltLib window doesn’t show the plot well.
Run : alfa=0 to -20 in steps of 5
deg.
and write the CL and CDp from
the screen.

Re-calculate alfa=0 solution and

run 0 to 20 deg.
b.& c. Viscous polar calculation
Run XFOIL
type:’naca0012’, ‘oper’ then type
‘visc’ to enable viscous mode.
type: 300000 for Re #.
Prompt changes to .OPERv>
 Specify output file name.
Type: pacc
Specify 2 file names for
example,
polar_naca0012_300e3.dat
Dump_naca0012_300e3.dat.
Now files are opened.
 Screen tells
‘polar accumulation enabled’
Calculate alfa 0 case for an initial
solution.
Calculate from this solution, alfa 0,
over the given range of incidence in
steps of 1 deg.
If the code doesn’t converge, about
14 deg., you will have to moving in
0.5 deg to get convergence.
 sequence run option
Instead of using a single
calculation by specifying alfa,
there is a sequence command.
The following command run from
alfa 0 to -13 in steps of alfa -1.
OPERv> aseq 0 -13 -1
 You can plot polar from
your output data as well.
d. Plotting
Download the Pplot from the XFOIL webpage.
 Run Pplot.
Type 1 and type polar file name you
output by XFOIL.
Then type ‘enter key’
Type 4 to output the polar plot.
Type 0 to close pplot.
Rename the plot.ps to different
name.ps
double click the ps file to open by
the GSview.
Save the plot by screen dump,
‘Alt’ + ‘Print Screen’
2.d Plot boundary layer parameters

As we did in 2.b and 2.c, run specified

case in viscous mode. For example,
>naca0012
>oper
>visc
>1000000
>alfa 0
Then type
>?
You find Vplo as BL variable plot.
 Type vplo and type
> ? to see a list of variables
Type ‘cf’ and type ‘hard’ to save the
plot. Copy and past the plot.ps in
different name.
(Program is using the file and cannot
rename it.)
Repeat ‘dt’ for upper surface δ * Θ
Repeat ‘db’ for lower surface δ * Θ
Repeat ‘h’ for the form factor H
 Plot everything by excel or Matlab
• If you like to plot from data files, type
‘dump’ and specify the filename to obtain
the data files.