A Computational Investigation of Airfoil Stall Flutter

Abstract

A fully factorized two-dimensional Navier-Stokes flow solver has been developed and applied to the problem of predicting subsonic airfoil flutter in the light stall regime. The inviscid fluxes are evaluated with a central difference ADI scheme and fourth and second order numerical dissipation is used to obtain oscillation-free solutions. The performance of algebraic and one- equation turbulence models in predicting separated flow is explored for computing high Reynolds number steady flow and unsteady flows over an oscillating NACA 0012 airfoil. Comparisons of the computed results with available experimental data indicate that even though the lift response is fairly well predicted, the computation of the pitching moment hysteresis loops is very sensitive to turbulence modeling. Results computed with several current models are in good agreement whenever the steady stall angle is exceeded only slightly. However, they fail to capture the vortex shedding process leading to the onset of stall flutter.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA247302

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey D. Clarkson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Reynolds Number
  • Steady Flow
  • Steady State
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional
  • Unsteady Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)