During the past decade, aircraft engine manufacturers and scientists at NASA have worked on extending the high propulsive efficiency of a classical propeller to higher cruise Mach numbers. The resulting configurations use highly swept twisted and very thin blades to delay the drag divergence Mach number. Unfortunately, these blades are also susceptible to aeroelastic instabilities. This was observed for some advanced propeller configurations in wind tunnel tests at NASA Lewis Research Center, where the blades fluttered at cruise speeds. To address this problem and to understand the flow phenomena and the solid fluid interaction involved, a research effort was initiated at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986, under the support of the Structural Dynamics Branch of the NASA Lewis Research Center. The objectives of this study are: (1) the development of solution procedures and computer codes capable of predicting the aeroelastic characteristics of modern single and counter-rotation propellers; and (2) the use of these solution procedures to understand physical phenomena such as stall flutter, transonic flutter, and divergence.


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    Title :

    Simulation of unsteady rotational flow over propfan configuration


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    Publication date :

    1990-11-30


    Type of media :

    Report


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    Language :

    English


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