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Full-Text Articles in Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics

Parametric Viscous Analysis Of Gust Interaction With Stationary And Elastically Mounted Airfoil, Timothy M. Hollenshade Jr. Feb 2010

Parametric Viscous Analysis Of Gust Interaction With Stationary And Elastically Mounted Airfoil, Timothy M. Hollenshade Jr.

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

This thesis details the development and implementation of a module within a high-accuracy numerical viscous analysis code to simulate the nonlinear interaction of SD7003 airfoil with non-uniform, unsteady incoming flow. The study is focused on the low-Re number unsteady flows typical of MAV applications in which a gust encounter can induce a particularly significant aerodynamic and aeroelastic response. Efficient source models are developed to introduce sharp-edge and time-harmonic gust perturbations with specified amplitude, frequency and duration inside the computational domain through the source terms in the governing momentum equations. Parametric analysis of gust-airfoil interactions for different steady airfoil loads is …


Analysis Of Wake Vortices Of A Medium Range Twin-Propeller Military Cargo Aircraft Using Statistically Designed Experiments, Burhan Sahin Jan 2010

Analysis Of Wake Vortices Of A Medium Range Twin-Propeller Military Cargo Aircraft Using Statistically Designed Experiments, Burhan Sahin

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

An experimental study was initiated to analyze the trajectories of the streamwise vortices behind the wing tip and flap of a medium range and propeller driven twin-engine military cargo aircraft. The model used for the experimental study was a generic, high wing and half model of a propeller driven aircraft and mounted within Old Dominion University's Low Speed Wind Tunnel where the wind tunnel flow speed was set to constant value of 9 m/sec. The main purpose of the study was to reach regression models for the motion and vorticity strength of both vortices under varying factors such as angle …