Active Control of Flow Separation Over an Airfoil
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چکیده
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 blowing is introduced at the leading edge of tile airfoil in the form of tangential jet.. Numerical solutions are obtained using Reynolds-averaged viscous compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Unsteady suction and blowing is investigated as a means of separation control to obtain lift on airfoils. The effect of blowing coefficients oil lift. and drag is investigated. The numerical simulations are compared with experiments from tile Tel-Aviv University (TAU). These results indicate that unsteady suction and blowing can be used as a means of separation control to generate lift. on airfoils.
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