Verification of Hovering Rotor Analysis Code Using Overlapped Grid

Autor: Jang-Hyuk Kwon, Jeewoong Kim, Soo Hyung Park, Eu-Gene Kim, Yung-Hoon Yu
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences. 36:719-727
ISSN: 1225-1348
DOI: 10.5139/jksas.2008.36.8.719
Popis: A 3-D compressible Navier-Stokes solver using overlapped grids is developed to predict a flow-field around a hovering rotor. The flow solver is verified by a parametric study with the grid spacing of wake grid, spatial accuracy and turbulence model. Computations are performed with different Chimera grid systems. Computational results are compared with the experimental data of Caradonna et al. for both blade loading and the tip vortex behavior. Numerical results show good agreements with experiments for the distribution of surface pressure and tip vortex behavior. Pressure distributions over the blade have marginal differences for different numerical methods, whereas large discrepancies are seen in the prediction of the wake behavior. Results unexpectedly show that the vortex strength from an automated cut-paste Chimera grid is weaker than that from the conventional Chimera grid.
Databáze: OpenAIRE