03.2 - Experimental Aerodynamics
DESIGN OF MEASUREMENT SETUP FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE IN-FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS ON DU89-134/14 AIRFOIL AT LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER
M. Avirovic¹, C. Brunelli¹, K. Wykes², C. Mengdehl², B.G. Marinus¹, J. Degroote, University of Ghent, Belgium; J. Van Beeck, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium; ¹Royal Military Academy, Belgium ;²Stemme Belgium, Belgium
The goal of this research is to design a measurement setup for high-altitude in-flight experiments and to investigate the aerodynamic impact of the test airfoil configuration on the HAPS flight demonstrator, which will be used as the unmanned test aircraft. The design of the test airfoil, pressure measurement, infrared thermography, and temperature sensitive paint setups will be presented.