26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-3.5.3

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE AERODYNAMICS OF UNCONVENTIONAL W-LEADING EDGE REVERSED DELTA WING IN GROUND EFFECT

M. Musaj, S. A. Prince
City Univ., UK

Keywords: numerical, experimental, w-leading edge, reversed delta wing, ground effect

A combined experimental and computational study of a W-planform wing in ground effect has been performed. Experimental data for Re=300,000 on a 0.05 scale model show good agreement with full-scale CFD simulations at low incidence. The near-wake total pressures distribution has been experimentally and computationally examined.

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