Computational analysis of flapping airfoil aerodynamics

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1994-01-01

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Tuncer, İsmail Hakkı
Ekaterinaris, John A.

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A Navier-Stokes, a potential flow and an interactive Navier-Stokes/potential flow analysis are described for the determination of the flowfield and of the aerodynamic forces generated by a flapping airfoil in low subsonic flow. The numerical solutions predict thrust for a sinusoidally flapping motion with a mean amplitude of 0.10 c and a reduced frequency of k = 1.5. The thrust producing vortical wake profiles are identified. The interactive Navier-Stokes/potential flow solution method yields as accurate a flowfield prediction as the full domain Navier-Stokes solution.

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İ. H. Tuncer and J. A. Ekaterinaris, “Computational analysis of flapping airfoil aerodynamics,” 1994, vol. 196, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0028058367&origin=inward.