Numerical study of wind-tunnel wall effects on lift and drag characteristics of NACA 0012 airfoil

Abobaker, Mostafa and M. Elfaghi, Abdulhafid and Addeep, Sogair (2020) Numerical study of wind-tunnel wall effects on lift and drag characteristics of NACA 0012 airfoil. CFD Letters, 12 (11). pp. 72-82. ISSN 2180-1363

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Abstract

Possible interference effects of the wind tunnel walls play an important role especially for measurements in closed-wall test sections. In this study, a numerical analysis of two-dimensional subsonic flow over a NACA 0012 airfoil at different computational domain heights, angles of attack from 0o to 10o , and operating Reynolds number of 6×106 is presented. The work highlights the role of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the investigation of wind tunnel wall effect on lift curve slope correction factor (Ka). The flow solution is obtained using Ansys Fluent software by solving the steady-state continuity and momentum governing equations combined with turbulence model k- shear stress transport (SST-Kω). The numerical results are validated by comparing with the available experimental measurements. Calculations show that the lift curve slope correction results are very close to the published data.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Airfoil; Wall effect; Lift; Drag; Turbulence model; Lift curve slope; Wall correction; Domain height
Subjects: T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics > TL500-777 Aeronautics. Aeronautical engineering
Divisions: Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering > Department of Mechanical Engineering
Depositing User: Miss Nur Rasyidah Rosli
Date Deposited: 27 Jan 2022 04:39
Last Modified: 27 Jan 2022 04:39
URI: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/6193

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