Navier-Stokes transonic airfoil calculations based on a recently developed nonequilibrium, turbulence closure model are presented for a supercritical airfoil section at transonic cruise conditions and for a conventional airfoil section at shock-induced stall conditions. Comparisons with experimental data are presented which show that this nonequilibrium closure model performs significantly better than the popular Baldwin-Lomax and Cebeci-Smith equilibrium algebraic models when there is boundary-layer separation that results from the inviscid-viscous interactions.
Separated Transonic Airfoil Flow Calculations with a Nonequilibrium Turbulence Model
1985
20 pages
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English
Experimental Analysis of Separated Transitional Transonic Airfoil Flow
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
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