Numerical Simulation of Transient Vortex Breakdown Above a Pitching Delta Wing

Numerical Simulation of Transient Vortex Breakdown Above a Pitching Delta Wing
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Total Pages: 43
Release: 1994
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Computational results are presented for transient vortex breakdown above a delta wing subject to a pitch-and-hold maneuver to high angle of attack. The flows are simulated by solving the full three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations on a moving grid using the implicit Beam-Warming algorithm. An assessment of the effects of numerical resolution, and favorable comparison with experimental data suggest the computational approach captures the basic dynamics of this transient breakdown. The pressure gradient along the vortex axis is found to play a dominant role in the initiation of breakdown. A description of the three-dimensional instantaneous structure of the flow field is provided for the first time using critical-point theory. The reversed-flow region in the vortex core is associated with pairs of opposite spiral/saddle critical points. At its onset, the vortex breakdown is fairly axisymmetric; however, as it proceeds upstream and a stronger transition takes place along the axis, asymmetric effects become important and result in the formation of a bubble-type breakdown. This bubble structure is open and contains within itself a pair of stagnation points which are diametrically opposed and which rotate in the same sense as the base flow. Vortex breakdown, Delta wings, Unsteady aerodynamics, Computational fluid dynamics.

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.

DESider – A European Effort on Hybrid RANS-LES Modelling

DESider – A European Effort on Hybrid RANS-LES Modelling
Author: Werner Haase
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540927735

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Preface “In aircraft design, efficiency is determined by the ability to accurately and rel- bly predict the occurrence of, and to model the development of, turbulent flows. Hence, the main objective in industrial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is to increase the capabilities for an improved predictive accuracy for both complex flows and complex geometries”. This text part taken from Haase et al (2006), - scribing the results of the DESider predecessor project “FLOMANIA” is still - and will be in future valid. With an ever-increasing demand for faster, more reliable and cleaner aircraft, flight envelopes are necessarily shifted into areas of the flow regimes exhibiting highly unsteady and, for military aircraft, unstable flow behaviour. This undou- edly poses major new challenges in CFD; generally stated as an increased pred- tive accuracy whist retaining “affordable” computation times. Together with highly resolved meshes employing millions of nodes, numerical methods must have the inherent capability to predict unsteady flows. Although at present, (U)RANS methods are likely to remain as the workhorses in industry, the DESider project focussed on the development and combination of these approaches with LES methods in order to “bridge” the gap between the much more expensive (due to high Reynolds numbers in flight), but more accurate (full) LES.

Vortex Breakdown Over Slender Delta Wings

Vortex Breakdown Over Slender Delta Wings
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Release: 2009
Genre: Aerodynamics
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The report contains a study of the phenomenon of leading-edge vortex breakdown over slender delta wings conducted by the NATO/RTO/AVT Task Group AVT-080. After an introduction and discussion of highlights, a chapter is devoted to a critical assessment of available experimental studies of the vortex breakdown phenomenon. Eight reliable experimental data sets are collected and compiled. These data sets are described in separate chapters and were obtained on more or less identical delta wing models tested in different wind tunnel test facilities. The datasets include time-average results at static model conditions, ensemble-average results at dynamic model conditions and unsteady results at static/dynamic model conditions. Based on the critical assessment, a benchmark test case is selected that provides sufficiently reliable data for validation of the numerical predictions. In separate chapters ten state-of-the-art numerical solutions from various research institutes are described that have been obtained for the benchmark test case configuration and test conditions. Studies of the effects of parameters like grid density, turbulence modeling, time scaling, etc., have been performed. In addition, for a special delta wing configuration, the effects of tunnel wall interference and of interactions between vortices have been calculated. In the final three chapters advanced analytical methods are described.

Vortex Breakdown Over Slender Delta Wings (Eclatement Tourbillonnaire Sur Les Ailes Delta Effil Es).

Vortex Breakdown Over Slender Delta Wings (Eclatement Tourbillonnaire Sur Les Ailes Delta Effil Es).
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Total Pages: 594
Release: 2009
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The report contains a study of the phenomenon of leading-edge vortex breakdown over slender delta wings conducted by the NATO/RTO/AVT Task Group AVT-080. After an introduction and discussion of highlights, a chapter is devoted to a critical assessment of available experimental studies of the vortex breakdown phenomenon. Eight reliable experimental data sets are collected and compiled. These data sets are described in separate chapters and were obtained on more or less identical delta wing models tested in different wind tunnel test facilities. The datasets include timeaverage results at static model conditions, ensemble-average results at dynamic model conditions and unsteady results at static/dynamic model conditions. Based on the critical assessment, a benchmark test case is selected that provides sufficiently reliable data for validation of the numerical predictions. In separate chapters ten state-of-the-art numerical solutions from various research institutes are described that have been obtained for the benchmark test case configuration and test conditions. Studies of the effects of parameters like grid density, turbulence modeling, time scaling, etc., have been performed. In addition, for a special delta wing configuration, the effects of tunnel wall interference and of interactions between vortices have been calculated. In the final three chapters advanced analytical methods are described. The report is of great value to scientists involved in the development of design methods for military aircraft configurations, but also for high speed civil and/or space aircraft.

Fluid Vortices

Fluid Vortices
Author: Sheldon Green
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 905
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 940110249X

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Fluid Vortices is a comprehensive, up-to-date, research-level overview covering all salient flows in which fluid vortices play a significant role. The various chapters have been written by specialists from North America, Europe and Asia, making for unsurpassed depth and breadth of coverage. Topics addressed include fundamental vortex flows (mixing layer vortices, vortex rings, wake vortices, vortex stability, etc.), industrial and environmental vortex flows (aero-propulsion system vortices, vortex-structure interaction, atmospheric vortices, computational methods with vortices, etc.), and multiphase vortex flows (free-surface effects, vortex cavitation, and bubble and particle interactions with vortices). The book can also be recommended as an advanced graduate-level supplementary textbook. The first nine chapters of the book are suitable for a one-term course; chapters 10--19 form the basis for a second one-term course.

Numerical Simulation of Compressible Vortices

Numerical Simulation of Compressible Vortices
Author: Scott A. Morton
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Total Pages: 61
Release: 1989
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A delta wing at a high angle of attack produces two vortices that generally undergo dramatic increases in core size, followed by the formation of regions of reversed flow. This phenomenon is called vortex breakdown and can have significant effects on the aircraft's lift, drag, and moment coefficients. The objective of this thesis is to provide a base line model of the compressible vortex, independent of the complex body interaction with the delta wing. The mathematical model is then used to simulate vortex breakdown for various vortex strengths, Reynolds numbers, and Mach numbers with particular attention given to the effects of compressibility. After running many simulations it was found that Mach number has a favorable effect by delaying vortex breakdown as defined above. Holding Reynolds number and vortex strength constant while increasing Mach number reduced the effective vortex strength while compressing the flow. Another important result of this compressible flow study was the disappearance of non-unique solutions at Re = 200 and V = 1.0 as Mach number was increased. No paths of non-unique solutions were found for M> 0.2. Keywords: Navier stokes solutions. (KR).