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 2008-3.3.1 INVITED

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL VORTEX FLOW EXPERIMENT (VFE-2): RESULTS OF THE FIRST PHASE 2003 - 2008

D. Hummel
TU Braunschweig, Germany

Keywords: Delta wings, vortical flows, experimental results, CFD results, VFE-2

Objectives, organization and scientific results of an international cooperation within an RTO Task Group related to a 65° swept delta wing are described. The flow field around a configuration with rounded leading edges is analysed using PSP, TSP, PIV and HWA techniques as well as through numerical calculations

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