The formation and rollup of a tip vortex trailed from a hovering helicopter rotor blade is studied in detail using both computations and measurements. The compressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are computationally solved on an overset mesh system. The flow measurements are made using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry. The high resolution of both the numerics and the measurements reveal multiple coherent structures in the evolving rotor tip vortex flow field. Secondary and tertiary vortices that result from crossflow separations near the blade tip are identified. These vortices, along with a part of the trailed wake, are ultimately entrained into the tip vortex that is formed downstream of the blade's trailing edge. The simulations clearly demonstrate the resolution required to accurately represent the complex three-dimensional flowfield. The advantage of particle image velocimetry, which has the ability to make planar measurements at a given instant of time, has been fully used to validate the computational fluid dynamics predictions. Even though linear eddy viscosity models are expected to inadequately represent the details of the turbulent quantities, good agreement is seen to be achieved with the particle image velocimetry measurements of the mean flowfield. The various sources of computational and measurement uncertainties are discussed.


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    Titel :

    High-resolution computational and experimental study of rotary-wing tip vortex formation


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Hochaufgelöste rechnerische und experimentelle Untersuchung der Wirbelbildung an Rotorflügelspitzen


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    AIAA Journal (online) ; 45 , 11 ; 2593-2602


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2007


    Format / Umfang :

    10 Seiten, 16 Bilder, 23 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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