Affiliation:
1. Department of Aerospace Engineering, The University of Kansas , Lawrence 66045, USA
Abstract
A passive flow control technique of utilizing an equilateral triangular trip close to the leading edge was developed and tested for a micro-scale Eppler E423 airfoil at a Reynolds number based on the chord of 40 000. The analysis was carried out via high-order wall-resolved large eddy simulation using the computational solver HpMusic. Angles of attack of 5° and 20° were tested. It was shown that at an angle of attack of 5°, the trip height of two times the local boundary layer thickness outperformed existing passive flow control techniques from the literature by almost a factor of five in terms of the lift-to-drag ratio. To understand the underlying physics which allowed the trip to provide this very significant performance benefit, metrics such as pressure coefficient profiles, oil flows, iso-surfaces of Q-criteria, and leading-edge flow behavior were examined. It was found that this trip configuration simultaneously removed the flow separation regions on both the suction and pressure sides of the wing.
Funder
National Science Foundation
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Army Research Office
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Mechanics of Materials,Computational Mechanics,Mechanical Engineering
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