The development of flow separation on a model tested at subsonic flow conditions reaching stall is not currently accounted for by the wall-correction methodology used at the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) 5 ft trisonic wind tunnel. Consequently, although this method provides accurate wall corrections during tests in prestall conditions, it is unable to generate reliable corrections in stall. The present paper investigates the possible improvements to the singularity representation of the model, which are paramount to the “one-variable” wall-correction methodology. This revision of the model representation is based on high-fidelity free-air computational fluid dynamics solutions for the NASA Common Research Model (CRM), which are validated by experimental datasets obtained from a semispan version of the CRM tested at the NRC’s 5 ft trisonic wind tunnel. The improved potential representation is tested on solid-wall experimental wind-tunnel data to present more reliable behavior of the wall interference correction estimates when substantial wing stalling is encountered.
Improvement of Wall-Corrections at the National Research Council’s Trisonic Wind Tunnel
Journal of Aircraft ; 56 , 6 ; 2299-2308
01.11.2019
Aufsatz (Konferenz) , Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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