Flow control over an airfoil using virtual Gurney flaps

Active Control of Flow Separation Over an Airfoil

Designing an aircraft without conventional control surfaces is of interest to aerospace community. In this direction, smart actuator devices such as synthetic jets have been proposed to provide aircraft maneuverability instead of control surfaces. In this article, a numerical study is performed to investigate the effects of unsteady suction and blowing oil airfoils. The unsteady suction and blo...

Study of flow separation over an airfoil with synthetic jet control using large-eddy simulation

Active control of flow separation over an airfoil using synthetic jets

We perform large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow separation over an airfoil and evaluate the effectiveness of synthetic jets as a separation control technique. The flow configuration consists of flow over an NACA 0015 airfoil at Reynolds number of 896,000 based on the airfoil chord length and freestream velocity. A small slot across the entire span connected to a cavity inside the airfoil is ...

Numerical Simulation of Flow over an Airfoil with a Cavity

Two-dimensional direct numerical simulation of the flow over a NACA0018 airfoil with a cavity is presented. The lowReynolds number simulations are validated bymeans of flow visualizations carried out in awater channel. From the simulations, it follows that there are twomain regimes of flow inside the cavity. Depending on the angle of attack, the first or the second shear-layer mode (Rossiter to...

Effect of Regular Surface Perturbations on Flow Over an Airfoil

This paper presents an investigation on the effect of introducing large-scale roughness through static curvature modifications on the low speed flow over an airfoil. The surfaces of a standard Eppler 398 airfoil have been modified with regular perturbations or “bumps” of the order of 2%c for this purpose. While the actual E398 airfoil is not a suitable candidate for low Re cases due to extensiv...