Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Numerical Prediction of Dynamic Forces on Arbitrarily Pitched Airfoils in Turbulent Flow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1983

Journal Title

AIAA Journal

Volume

21

Issue

2

First Page

161

Last Page

162

DOI

10.2514/3.8046

Abstract

Numerical solutions for an NACA 0012 airfoil undergoing various pitching motions are compared with both static and new dynamic experimental data. The unsteady incompressible Reynolds-average Navier-Stokes equations for a rotating coordinate system are used. A body-fitted grid is mapped into a rectangular coordinate system using a time-independent transformation. The set of transformed partial differential equations is solved with an implicit finite difference method.

Keywords

Airfoils, airfoil design, airplane wing shape

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