EFFECT OF VERTICAL TRANSLATION ON UNSTEADYAERODYNAMICS OF A HOVERING AIRFOIL

2010-06-17
Gunaydınoglu, Erkan
Kurtuluş, Dilek Funda
In this study, the unsteady aerodynamics of SD7003 airfoil undergoing “figure-of-eight” motions with vertical translation amplitudes of 0c (normal hover), 0.5c and 1c is investigated numerically. The forces and vortex fields are compared at the same Reynolds number that is defined with respect to the maximum absolute velocity. Also the effect of the reduced frequency is investigated and it is found that in the meantime, decreasing reduced frequency and increasing Reynolds number does not alter the general force and vortex-field trends but increases the peaks in the aerodynamic forces for same motion.

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Citation Formats
E. Gunaydınoglu and D. F. Kurtuluş, “EFFECT OF VERTICAL TRANSLATION ON UNSTEADYAERODYNAMICS OF A HOVERING AIRFOIL,” 2010, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/76475.