The correlation between wind tunnel experimental results and free stream flight results is difficult even for incompressible flows and 2D configurations. This correlation becomes more difficult to be found if the geometrical configuration contains high lift devices such as Kruger and flaps due to the significant amount of separations. Furthermore, the walls of subsonic wind tunnel cause massive wave pressure reflections especially for high blockage, which affect dramatically the aerodynamic coefficients for experimented models . Unfortunately, very few papers and books deal with this delicate subject even if the appearance of subsonic wind tunnel dates over 100 years ago. For this reason, the present paper deals with this complex subject in order to bring some new light in this complex field. This paper is based on an impressive number of RANS simulations for plain airfoils and 2D high lift configurations for wind tunnel and free stream conditions in order to find some useful correlations for INCAS subsonic wind tunnel.
Corrections for wind tunnel results for 2D high lift configurations using RANS simulations
ICNPAA 2018 WORLD CONGRESS: 12th International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences ; 2018 ; Yerevan, Armenia
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 2046 , 1
2018-12-04
6 pages
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
AIAA 2006-1396 Comparison of RANS Simulations of Multi-Element High-Lift Configurations
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