At present, there is a great interest in the development of new airfoils for wind turbines and high-lift wings of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The requirements for such airfoils differ from conventional aircraft airfoils, because of structural reasons and extreme operating conditions. So, wind turbine airfoils operate frequently under fully separated flow when stall is used for power regulation at high wind speeds. At the same time design of airfoils for wings UAV poses the problem of availability of high-lift at low Reynolds number. Modern airfoils are to a large extent developed from numerical methods. However, the complex flow conditions such as separation at high angles of attack, laminar separation bubbles and the transition from laminar to turbulent flow are difficult to predict accurately. Hence, testing of airfoils at a two-dimensional condition is an important phase in airfoil design. The development and validation of a 2D testing facility for investigation of single and multi-element airfoils in the wind tunnel Т-102 with open test section are considered in this article. T-102 is a continuous-operation, closed-layout wind tunnel with two reverse channels. The test section has an elliptical cross-section of 4 ×2,33 m and a length of 4 m. Two big flat panels of the L × H=3 ×3,9 m size installed upright on balance frame aligned with the free stream are used for simulating two-dimensional flow in the tunnel test section. The airfoil section in the layout of a rectangular wing is mounted horizontally between flat panels with minimum gaps to ensure 2D flow conditions. The aerodynamic forces and pitch moment acting on the model were measured by wind tunnel balance. To determine boundary corrections for a new test section of wind tunnel, the experimental investigation of three geometrically similar models has been executed. The use of boundary corrections has provided good correlation of the test data of airfoil NACA 6712 with the results obtained from the wind tunnel except for lift and drag coefficient values at high angles of attack.


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    Title :

    SIMULATION OF 2D FLOW AROUND OF AIRFOILS AT LOW-SPEED WIND TUNNEL WITH OPEN JET TEST-SECTION


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    Publication date :

    2019




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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


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