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Time-linearised transonic computations including entropy, vorticity and shock wave motion effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

E. Ly
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
J. Nakamichi
Affiliation:
Structures and Materials Research Center, National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL), Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

The effect of small perturbations on steady nonlinear transonic small disturbance flowfields, in the context of two-dimensional flows governed by the general-frequency transonic small disturbance equation with nonreflecting far-field boundary conditions, is investigated. This paper presents a time-linearised time-domain solution method that includes effects due to the shock-generated entropy and vorticity and shock wave motions. The solution procedure correctly accounts for the small-amplitude shock wave motion due to small unsteady changes in the aerofoil boundary conditions, and correctly models a flowfield with embedded strong shock waves. Steady and first harmonic pressure distributions for the NACA 0003 aerofoil with a harmonically oscillating flap, and NACA 0012 aerofoil undergoing a sinusoidal pitching oscillation, are predicted and compared with the Euler results.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2003 

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