A helicopter rotor modelling and meshing system

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2021-09-08

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Uzun, Halit Eldem
Yutük, Kaan
Baran, Özgür Uğraş
AKSEL, MEHMET HALUK

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Helicopter rotors in flight constitute a fairly complex wing geometry and exhibit motion in several axes. As a result, rotor motion creates quite complex flow patterns, and unlike fixed wings, flow around each rotor blade interacts with each other. These complexities make the analysis of the rotor flow is a challenge for CFD solvers. The challenge starts with very high requirements on the quality of the computational mesh. A modern helicopter rotor involves a number of different airfoil sections, complex profile blending, twists and other complexities. Moreover, blade tip geometry can be selected from a wide variety of candidates. In this study, we present the results of our fully automatized rotor geometry and solution domain generation tool. With the new tool a rotor with a very high complexity with any number of blades can be generated, and a very high quality multi-block and conformal meshes are produced. The new tool is tested with known helicopter rotors and CFD solutions are calculated.

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http://aiac.ae.metu.edu.tr/paper.php?No=AIAC-2021-150
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/96421

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11th Ankara International Aerospace Conference

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H. E. Uzun, K. Yutük, Ö. U. Baran, and M. H. AKSEL, “A helicopter rotor modelling and meshing system,” presented at the 11th Ankara International Aerospace Conference, Ankara, Türkiye, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: http://aiac.ae.metu.edu.tr/paper.php?No=AIAC-2021-150.