Separated and Vortical Flow in Aircraft Wing Aerodynamics

Separated and Vortical Flow in Aircraft Wing Aerodynamics
Author: Ernst Heinrich Hirschel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2020-10-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 366261328X

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Fluid mechanical aspects of separated and vortical flow in aircraft wing aerodynamics are treated. The focus is on two wing classes: (1) large aspect-ratio wings and (2) small aspect-ratio delta-type wings. Aerodynamic design issues in general are not dealt with. Discrete numerical simulation methods play a progressively larger role in aircraft design and development. Accordingly, in the introduction to the book the different mathematical models are considered, which underlie the aerodynamic computation methods (panel methods, RANS and scale-resolving methods). Special methods are the Euler methods, which as rather inexpensive methods embrace compressibility effects and also permit to describe lifting-wing flow. The concept of the kinematically active and inactive vorticity content of shear layers gives insight into many flow phenomena, but also, with the second break of symmetry---the first one is due to the Kutta condition---an explanation of lifting-wing flow fields. The prerequisite is an extended definition of separation: “flow-off separation” at sharp trailing edges of class (1) wings and at sharp leading edges of class (2) wings. The vorticity-content concept, with a compatibility condition for flow-off separation at sharp edges, permits to understand the properties of the evolving trailing vortex layer and the resulting pair of trailing vortices of class (1) wings. The concept also shows that Euler methods at sharp delta or strake leading edges of class (2) wings can give reliable results. Three main topics are treated: 1) Basic Principles are considered first: boundary-layer flow, vortex theory, the vorticity content of shear layers, Euler solutions for lifting wings, the Kutta condition in reality and the topology of skin-friction and velocity fields. 2) Unit Problems treat isolated flow phenomena of the two wing classes. Capabilities of panel and Euler methods are investigated. One Unit Problem is the flow past the wing of the NASA Common Research Model. Other Unit Problems concern the lee-side vortex system appearing at the Vortex-Flow Experiment 1 and 2 sharp- and blunt-edged delta configurations, at a delta wing with partly round leading edges, and also at the Blunt Delta Wing at hypersonic speed. 3) Selected Flow Problems of the two wing classes. In short sections practical design problems are discussed. The treatment of flow past fuselages, although desirable, was not possible in the frame of this book.

An Introduction to Flapping Wing Aerodynamics

An Introduction to Flapping Wing Aerodynamics
Author: Wei Shyy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-08-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1107067987

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This is an ideal book for graduate students and researchers interested in the aerodynamics, structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats and insects, as well as of micro air vehicles (MAVs), which present some of the richest problems intersecting science and engineering. The agility and spectacular flight performance of natural flyers, thanks to their flexible, deformable wing structures, as well as to outstanding wing, tail and body coordination, is particularly significant. To design and build MAVs with performance comparable to natural flyers, it is essential that natural flyers' combined flexible structural dynamics and aerodynamics are adequately understood. The primary focus of this book is to address the recent developments in flapping wing aerodynamics. This book extends the work presented in Aerodynamics of Low Reynolds Number Flyers (Shyy et al. 2008).

A Theoretical Investigation of the Aerodynamics of Slender Wing-body Combinations Exhibiting Leading-edge Separation

A Theoretical Investigation of the Aerodynamics of Slender Wing-body Combinations Exhibiting Leading-edge Separation
Author: Alvin H. Sacks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1967
Genre: Aerodynamic load
ISBN:

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A theoretical analysis is presented for calculating the normal force and center of pressure on plane wing/body combinations exhibiting leading edge separation. The mathematical model for the separated flow involves the shedding of a number of discrete vortex pairs along the wing leading edge, each pair satisfying the Kutta condition at the position of shedding. The subsequent lateral positions of these vortex filaments are calculated step by step, so that the rolling up of the vortex sheet is taken into account. Hence, the method predicts the chordwise normal-force distributions as well as the vortex sheet shapes over the configuration.

Flow Control Techniques and Applications

Flow Control Techniques and Applications
Author: Jinjun Wang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-12-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107161568

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Master the theory, applications and control mechanisms of flow control techniques.

High Angle of Attack Aerodynamics

High Angle of Attack Aerodynamics
Author: Josef Rom
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461228247

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The aerodynamics of aircraft at high angles of attack is a subject which is being pursued diligently, because the modern agile fighter aircraft and many of the current generation of missiles must perform well at very high incidence, near and beyond stall. However, a comprehensive presentation of the methods and results applicable to the studies of the complex aerodynamics at high angle of attack has not been covered in monographs or textbooks. This book is not the usual textbook in that it goes beyond just presenting the basic theoretical and experimental know-how, since it contains reference material to practical calculation methods and technical and experimental results which can be useful to the practicing aerospace engineers and scientists. It can certainly be used as a text and reference book for graduate courses on subjects related to high angles of attack aerodynamics and for topics related to three-dimensional separation in viscous flow courses. In addition, the book is addressed to the aerodynamicist interested in a comprehensive reference to methods of analysis and computations of high angle of attack flow phenomena and is written for the aerospace scientist and engineer who is familiar with the basic concepts of viscous and inviscid flows and with computational methods used in fluid dynamics.

Basic Research Program

Basic Research Program
Author: United States. Department of Defense
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1985
Genre: Military research
ISBN:

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Recent Progress in Computational Sciences and Engineering (2 vols)

Recent Progress in Computational Sciences and Engineering (2 vols)
Author: Theodore Simos
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1600
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466564512

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This volume brings together selected contributed papers presented at the International Conference of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE 2006), held in Chania, Greece, October 2006. The conference aims to bring together computational scientists from several disciplines in order to share methods and ideas. The ICCMSE is unique in its kind. It regroups original contributions from all fields of the traditional Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine and all branches of Engineering. It would be perhaps more appropriate to define the ICCMSE as a conference on computational science and its applications to science and engineering. Topics of general interest are: Computational Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Theoretical Chemistry. Computational Engineering and Mechanics, Computational Biology and Medicine, Computational Geosciences and Meteorology, Computational Economics and Finance, Scientific Computation. High Performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Visualization, Problem Solving Environments, Numerical Algorithms, Modelling and Simulation of Complex System, Web-based Simulation and Computing, Grid-based Simulation and Computing, Fuzzy Logic, Hybrid Computational Methods, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Virtual Reality, Reliable Computing, Image Processing, Computational Science and Education etc. More than 800 extended abstracts have been submitted for consideration for presentation in ICCMSE 2005. From these 500 have been selected after international peer review by at least two independent reviewers.