Numerical Simulation of Airfoil Vibrations Induced by Turbulent Flow

Numerical Simulation of Airfoil Vibrations Induced by Turbulent Flow

Year:    2015

Author:    Miloslav Feistauer, Jaromír Horáček, Petr Sváček

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 17 (2015), Iss. 1 : pp. 146–188

Abstract

The subject of the paper is the numerical simulation of the interaction of two-dimensional incompressible viscous flow and a vibrating airfoil with large amplitudes. The airfoil with three degrees of freedom performs rotation around an elastic axis, oscillations in the vertical direction and rotation of a flap. The numerical simulation consists of the finite element solution of the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations combined with Spalart-Allmaras or k−ω turbulence models, coupled with a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations describing the airfoil motion with consideration of large amplitudes. The time-dependent computational domain and approximation on a moving grid are treated by the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation of the flow equations. Due to large values of the involved Reynolds numbers an application of a suitable stabilization of the finite element discretization is employed. The developed method is used for the computation of flow-induced oscillations of the airfoil near the flutter instability, when the displacements of the airfoil are large, up to ±40 degrees in rotation. The paper contains the comparison of the numerical results obtained by both turbulence models.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.181213.230514a

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 17 (2015), Iss. 1 : pp. 146–188

Published online:    2015-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    43

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Author Details

Miloslav Feistauer

Jaromír Horáček

Petr Sváček