Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulation and Application of a Coflow Jet Airfoil at High Angle of Attack

2013 ◽  
Vol 444-445 ◽  
pp. 270-276
Author(s):  
Wen Biao Gan ◽  
Zhou Zhou ◽  
Xiao Ping Xu ◽  
Rui Wang

A DDES (Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulation) method is presented and applied to simulation and design of a CFJ (Coflow Jet) airfoil at high angle of attack. The method is based on average vorticity, and is used to predict a number of test cases, including a circular cylinder flow, vortex design and simulation of the CFJ airfoil. The results demonstrate that the DDES method is efficient for CFJ airfoil flow. It provides reference to flow control and aircraft design.

Author(s):  
Eric D. Robertson ◽  
Varun Chitta ◽  
D. Keith Walters ◽  
Shanti Bhushan

Using computational methods, an investigation was performed on the physical mechanisms leading to vortex breakdown in high angle of attack flows over delta wing geometries. For this purpose, the Second International Vortex Flow Experiment (VFE-2) 65° sweep delta wing model was studied at a root chord Reynolds number (Recr) of 6 × 106 at various angles of attack. The open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver OpenFOAM was used in parallel with the commercial CFD solver ANSYS® FLUENT. For breadth, a variety of classic closure models were applied, including unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) and detached eddy simulation (DES). Results for all cases are analyzed and flow features are identified and discussed. The results show the inception of a pair of leading edge vortices originating at the apex for all models used, and a region of steady vortical structures downstream in the URANS results. However, DES results show regions of massively separated helical flow which manifests after vortex breakdown. Analysis of turbulence quantities in the breakdown region gives further insight into the mechanisms leading to such phenomena.


Author(s):  
Mohammad Moshfeghi ◽  
Nahmkeon Hur

Synthetic jet actuators (SJA) have shown their efficiency in manipulating the aerodynamic forces on airfoils and blades. Generally, the injection angle is assumed to be an important factor for the injection-based flow control techniques, especially in moderate separation. However, it is important to know the level of effectiveness and the aerodynamic mechanism through which a SJA may affect an airfoil at a high angle of attack. The present research studies the effects of angle between the injected flow and the surface’s tangent line (Coanda effect) over the S809 airfoil equipped with a SJA, using detached eddy simulation (DES). The airfoil is assumed to be at an angle of attack of 25°. Three different cases with jet flow angles of 5°, 15° and 25° are simulated at a constant momentum coefficient of 4.5×10−3. The SJA frequency is 125 Hz for all cases and the simulations are conducted at the Reynolds number of one million. The effects of the jet angle on the streamline, pressure distribution and lifts and drag values are investigated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1309-1332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Laiping Zhang ◽  
Xin He ◽  
Xiaogang Deng ◽  
Haisheng Sun

AbstractThis paper presents the simulation of complex separation flows over a modern fighter model at high angle of attack by using an unstructured/hybrid grid based Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) solver with an adaptive dissipation second-order hybrid scheme. Simulation results, including the complex vortex structures, as well as vortex breakdown phenomenon and the overall aerodynamic performance, are analyzed and compared with experimental data and unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) results, which indicates that with the DES solver, clearer vortical flow structures are captured and more accurate aerodynamic coefficients are obtained. The unsteady properties of DES flow field are investigated in detail by correlation coefficient analysis, power spectral density (PSD) analysis and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) analysis, which indicates that the spiral motion of the primary vortex on the leeward side of the aircraft model is highly nonlinear and dominates the flow field. Through the comparisons of flow topology and pressure distributions with URANS results, the reason why higher and more accurate lift can be obtained by DES is discussed. Overall, these results show the potential capability of present DES solver in industrial applications.


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