Lift Enhancement by Means of Small-Amplitude Airfoil Oscillations at Low Reynolds Numbers

被引:79
作者
Cleaver, D. J. [1 ]
Wang, Z. [1 ]
Gursul, I. [1 ]
Visbal, M. R. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bath, Dept Mech Engn, Bath BA2 7AY, Avon, England
[2] USAF, Res Lab, Computat Sci Branch, Air Vehicles Directorate, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433 USA
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
PLUNGING AIRFOIL; FLOW-CONTROL; SEPARATION CONTROL; LOW-FREQUENCY; WINGS; AERODYNAMICS; SIMULATION; CHALLENGES; VEHICLES; SCHEMES;
D O I
10.2514/1.J051014
中图分类号
V [航空、航天];
学科分类号
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
Force and particle image velocimetry measurements were conducted on a NACA 0012 airfoil undergoing small-amplitude sinusoidal plunge oscillations at a poststall angle of attack and Reynolds number of 10,000. With increasing frequency of oscillation, lift increases and drag decreases due to the leading-edge vortices shed and convected over the suction surface of the airfoil. Within this regime, the lift coefficient increases approximately linearly with the normalized plunge velocity. Local maxima occur in the lift coefficient due to the resonance with the most unstable wake frequency, its subharmonic and first harmonic, producing the most efficient conditions for high-lift generation. At higher frequencies, a second mode of flowfield occurs. The leading-edge vortex remains nearer the leading edge of the airfoil and loses its coherency through impingement with the upward-moving airfoil. To capture this impingement process, high-fidelity computational simulations were performed that showed the highly transitional nature of the flow and a strong interaction between the upper and lower-surface vortices. A sudden loss of lift may also occur at high frequencies for larger amplitudes in this mode.
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页码:2018 / 2033
页数:16
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