The present study computationally investigates the characteristics of unsteady aerodynamic forces around an oscillating airfoil in the transonic flow regime. Particular attention is paid to the role of shock wave and shock-induced boundary layer separation in unsteady aerodynamics. The Reynolds-averaged compressible Navier–Stokes equations are solved with SA and SST turbulence models. A well-known forced-pitching NACA64A010 airfoil experiment (Sanford and Gerald in AIAA J 11:1306–1312, 1980, [6]) is simulated, and the freestream Mach number, Reynolds number, and reduced frequency are set to 0.8, 1.2 × 107, and 0.2, respectively. The pitching airfoil with mean angles of attack of 0°, 2°, 4°, and 6° having the amplitude of 1° is parametrically simulated. It is observed that at the mean angle of attack of 0°, there is a phase delay of the lift coefficient against the angle of attack due to the delay of a shock wave movement over the airfoil surface. In contrast, a phase-advanced feature of unsteady aerodynamics appears in increasing the mean angle of attack (e.g., 4° and 6°). There is a phase transition of unsteady aerodynamics from the delay to advance, significantly caused by the appearance of shock-induced boundary-layer separation. The mean angle of attack around 3° may correspond to a transition condition between the phase-delayed and phase-advanced features. The present study demonstrated that the trend of the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics around the transonic oscillating airfoils largely changes with the mean angle of attack. The shock wave, the shock-induced separation, and their interaction play a crucial role in determining the unsteady aerodynamics such as the phase-delayed or the phase-advanced features.
A Computational Study on Unsteady Aerodynamic Forces Around a Pitching Airfoil with Shock and Shock-Induced Separation
Lect. Notes Electrical Eng.
Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology ; 2021 ; Korea (Republic of) November 15, 2021 - November 17, 2021
The Proceedings of the 2021 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT 2021), Volume 1 ; Chapter : 26 ; 353-360
2022-08-31
8 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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