Parametric investigation of hull shaped fuselage for an amphibious UAV

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2016-07-15

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Sazak, Emre
Kurtuluş, Dilek Funda

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Performance of amphibious UAV’s (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) that take off from and land on water, like seaplanes, greatly depend on hydrodynamic effects as well as aerodynamic effects, therefore their geometries need to be optimized. This study mainly investigates the effect of geometric parameters of a generic, hull-shaped fuselage that are constrained by hydrodynamic drivers, such as the step height needed to reduce hydrodynamic drag, and deadrise and sternpost angles needed for safe landing, on aerodynamic drag of the fuselage under cruise conditions by means of the commercial CFD code ANSYS Fluent. Study includes a comparison of the experimental [1] and numerical results obtained at angles of attack varying between 8° to 16° and with Spalart-Allmaras, k-ω and k-ε turbulence models.

Subject Keywords

Computational fluid dynamics, Turbulence modeling

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/86856
https://iccfd9.itu.edu.tr/assets/pdf/papers/ICCFD9-2016-226.pdf

Conference Name

Ninth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD9), 2016

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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E. Sazak and D. F. Kurtuluş, “Parametric investigation of hull shaped fuselage for an amphibious UAV,” presented at the Ninth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD9), 2016, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/86856.