The transonic flow around an elastically suspended supercritical airfoil was experimentally investigated in order to enhance knowledge of buffet boundary dependencies and the corresponding self-excited fluid–structure interaction (buffeting). For that purpose, an experimental setup was designed, manufactured, and integrated in the Trisonic Wind Tunnel Munich. The design consisted of a rigid, two-dimensional, supercritical airfoil (OAT15A) with optional pitching degree of freedom and variable torsional spring stiffness. High-speed background-oriented schlieren measurements were used to observe the shock with its dynamics, while a high-speed stereo camera setup for correlation-based deformation measurements was implemented to track the dynamics of the structural motion. Pre-buffet and buffet flows were analyzed by a continuous increase of the angle of attack. The detailed observation of the shock position with increasing angle of attack exhibited a clear effect of Mach number and pitch eigenfrequency on the buffet phenomenon. The corresponding onset boundary clearly shifted into the “pre-buffet” regime given specific structural settings. Furthermore, the resulting fluid–structure interaction of shock and coupled pitch–heave motion showed characteristics of structural frequency lock-in for the pitch-to-buffet frequency ratios of 1.2 and the mode veering region for ratios of 1 and 0.9, indicating the transition region from fluid mode flutter to structural mode flutter.


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    Title :

    Effect of Mach Number and Pitching Eigenfrequency on Transonic Buffet Onset



    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 61 , 1 ; 112-124


    Publication date :

    2023-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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