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 2008-2.10.2

A COMPARISON OF NUMERICAL RANS SIMULATIONS AND FLOW FIELD MEASUREMENTS OF AN OSCILLATING AIRFOIL FOR FLAPPING WING PROPULSION

S. Bansmer, E. Mazlum, R. Radespiel
TU Braunschweig, Germany

Keywords: NUMERICAL RANS SIMULATIONS, FLOW FIELD MEASUREMENTS, AN OSCILLATING AIRFOIL, FLAPPING WING PROPULSION

Based upon a new biologically inspired airfoil, SG 04, numerical simulations for the case of coupled heaving and pitching oscillations were performed using a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes solver. The numerical solution will be compared with experimental data from stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry.

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