Flow about a slotted cylinder-airfoil combination in a wind tunnel Academic Article

abstract

• The flowfleld around a gust generator device, an airfoil/rotating slotted cylinder (RSC) system, is numerically simulated using the general-purpose finite element program FIDAP. The flow is assumed to be quasisteady, turbulent, incompressible, and two dimensional. The turbulence is modeled far from the walls by a high Reynolds number k- model. In the near-wall region, which includes the viscous sublayer, the mixing length concept is used to model turbulence. The numerical analysis treats the time-varying flow around the gust generator device as quasisteady and solves the flow position-by-position as the RSC rotates. The variation of lift and drag as a function of the rotation angle and as a function of the gap between the airfoil and the rotating slotted cylinder is calculated.

authors

• Cizmas, Paul

published proceedings

• Journal of Aircraft

author list (cited authors)

• Cizmas, P., Tang, D., & Dowell, E. H.

complete list of authors

• Cizmas, Paul GA||Tang, Deman||Dowell, Earl H

publisher

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Aircraft  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2514/3.47006

start page

• 716

end page

• 721

volume

• 33

issue

• 4