28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-2.6.3


NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF SELF-SUSTAINED AEROELASTIC OSCILLATIONS AT LOW REYNOLDS NUMBERS

W. Yuan, B. Wang*, D. Poirel*
NRC, Canada; *Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

Keywords: fluid-structure interaction, limit-cycle oscillation, aeroelasticity, low-re aerodynamics, uav aerodynamics

By coupling a two-degree-of-freedom structural model with an in-house CFD code, large-eddy simulations were performed for a free-mounted NACA0012 airfoil at low Reynolds numbers. As observed in experiments, the simulations confirmed the limit-cycle oscillations resulting from the unsteadiness of the laminar boundary layer separation and its delayed recovery.


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