The complex aerodynamics of a propeller at incidence involve multiple asymmetric flow conditions around the disk, with each originating from different physical phenomena. These asymmetries give rise to in-plane forces and out-of-plane moments that are difficult to model with traditional low-order computational aerodynamics methods. This paper presents a three-dimensional unsteady vortex lattice method with a free vortex ring wake formulation that has been developed to model these effects for propellers at incidence. Convergence quality is investigated with respect to simulation time, grid resolution, and time-step resolution. Solution accuracy is evaluated by comparing to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses. Good agreement was found with CFD results. The paper concludes with a discussion on the challenges of modeling propellers at incidence with vortex lattice methods.


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    Title :

    Development of an Unsteady Vortex Lattice Method to Model Propellers at Incidence


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 60 , 1 ; 176-188


    Publication date :

    2021-09-27


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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