Why the stall of an airfoil can be significantly delayed by its pitching-up motion？ Various attempts have been proposed to answer this question over the past half century, but none is satisfactory. In this letter we ...Why the stall of an airfoil can be significantly delayed by its pitching-up motion？ Various attempts have been proposed to answer this question over the past half century, but none is satisfactory. In this letter we prove that a chain of vorticity-dynamics processes at accelerating boundary is fully responsible for the causal mechanism underlying this peculiar phenomenon. The local flow behavior is explained by a simple potential-flow model.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10921202,11221062,11521091,and 11472016)
文摘Why the stall of an airfoil can be significantly delayed by its pitching-up motion？ Various attempts have been proposed to answer this question over the past half century, but none is satisfactory. In this letter we prove that a chain of vorticity-dynamics processes at accelerating boundary is fully responsible for the causal mechanism underlying this peculiar phenomenon. The local flow behavior is explained by a simple potential-flow model.
