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A numerical and experimental study of a thin, high cambered airfoil at a low Reynolds number. (English) Zbl 1296.76030

Rahman, M. (ed.) et al., Advances in fluid mechanics VII (AFM 2008). 7th international conference on advances in fluid mechanics, 21– 23 May, 2008, The New Forest, UK. Southampton: WIT Press (ISBN 978-1-84564-109-2/hbk; 978-1-84564-315-7/ebook). WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences 59, 181-190 (2008).
Summary: In the framework of the development of new aerodynamic design concepts, a joint numerical/experimental analysis has been performed on a 2D thin, high cambered airfoil at a low Reynolds number. The experimental investigation has been performed by means of the Pressure Sensitive Paint technique (PSP) and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). These techniques have been selected for their characteristics of low-intrusivity and high spatial resolution. Details about the experimental set-up and results shall be reported. The experimental investigation has been intended to obtain detailed information about the pressure field and to detect flow characteristics on a non-conventional airfoil. Experimental data have been compared with numerical results obtained by FLUENT commercial code.
Results will be presented in terms of experimental and numerical velocity fields around the model and in terms of lift characteristics.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1138.76010].

MSC:

76D05 Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids
76M12 Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics
76-05 Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics

Software:

FLUENT
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