27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS2010-P2.13

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AIR JET ATTACHMENT TO CONVEX WALLS AND APPLICATIONS

N. Mirkov, B. Rasuo*
Institute of Nuclear Sciences "Vinca", Serbia; *Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia

Keywords: coanda-effect, unmanned air vehicles, computational fluid dynamics

The present paper is aimed at studying the effect of turbulent air jet attachment over convex surfaces using computational fluid dynamics tools. Numerical results obtained during the study lead to correlations important for design of UAV’s with Coanda effect based thrust generation.

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