Computation Of Flow About A Pitching Wing/Fuselage
Report presents computational study of unsteady transonic flow about airplanelike body as body pitches upward in increasing angle of attack.
Obayashi, S.↗
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Tu, E. L.
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Unsteady transonics of a wing with tip store
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Guruswamy, G. P.↗
Unsteady transonics of a wing with tip store
The presence of tip stores influences both the aerodynamic and the aeroelastic performance of wings. Such effects are more pronounced in the transonic regime. In this study, a theoretical method is developed, for the first time, to compute unsteady transonics of oscillating wings with tip stores. The method is based on the small-disturbance, aerodynamic equations of motion from the potential-flow theory. To validate the method, subsonic and transonic aerodynamic computations are made for a lower-aspect-ratio wing, and they are compared with the available experimental data. Comparisons are favorable. The strong effects of the tip store on the transonic aerodynamics of the wing are also illustrated. The method developed in this steady can be used for transonic, aeroelastic computations of wings with tip stores.
Guruswamy, G. P.↗
Transonic aeroelasticity of wings with tip stores
The presence of tip stores influences both aerodynamic and aeroelastic performances of wings. Such effects are more pronounced in the transonic regime. In this study, transonic aeroelasticity of wings with tip stores is studied for the first time by a theoretical method using the unsteady-small disturbance transonic aerodynamic equations coupled with modal structural equations of motion. The aerodynamic and structural equations of motion are simultaneously integrated by a time-accurate numerical scheme. To validate the tip store simulation, aeroelastic computations are made for a typical rectangular wing with a tip store and results are correlated with available wind tunnel data for the corresponding wing without a tip store at various flight conditions. Aeroelastic computations are also made for a typical fighter wing with a tip store. Present computations show that it is important to account for the aerodynamics of the tip store, particularly in the transonic regime where the tip store can make the wing aeroelastically unstable.
Guruswamy, G. P.↗