A joint effort between the NASA Ames and Langley Research Centers was undertaken to analyze the Mach 0.745 variant of the Boeing Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) Design. Two different flow solvers, LAVA and USM3D, were used to predict the TTBW flight performance. Sensitivity studies related to mesh resolution and numerical schemes were conducted to define best practices for this type of geometry and flow regime. Validation efforts compared the numerical simulation results of various modeling methods against experimental data taken from the NASA Ames 11-foot Unitary Wind Tunnel experimental data. The fidelity of the computational representation of the wind tunnel experiment, such as utilizing a porous wall boundary condition to model the ventilated test section, was varied to examine how different tunnel effects influence CFD predictions. LAVA and USM3D results both show an approximate 0.5 angle of attack shift from experimental lift curve data. This drove an investigation that revealed that the trailing edge of the experimental model was rounded in comparison to the CAD model, due to manufacturing tolerances, which had not been accounted for in the initial simulations of the experiment. Simulating the TTBW with an approximation of this rounded trailing-edge reduces error by approximately 60%. An accurate representation of the tested TTBW geometry, ideally including any wing twists and deflections experienced during the test under various loading conditions, will be necessary for proper validation of the CFD.


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    Title :

    Computational Simulations of a Mach 0.745 Transonic Truss-Braced Wing Design



    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech Forum ; 2020 ; Orlando, FL, United States


    Publication date :

    2020-01-06


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Computational Simulations of a Mach 0.745 \\Transonic Truss-Braced Wing Design

    Maldonado, Daniel / Viken, Sally A. / Housman, Jeffrey A. et al. | AIAA | 2020


    COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS OF A MACH 0.745 NTRANSONIC TRUSS-BRACED WING DESIGN

    Maldonado, Daniel / Viken, Sally A. / Housman, Jeffrey A. et al. | TIBKAT | 2020