The numerical investigation has been performed to explore the feasibility of vortex control by leading edge sucking excitation on a delta wing. The results reveal that the flow on the upper surface of the delta wing c...The numerical investigation has been performed to explore the feasibility of vortex control by leading edge sucking excitation on a delta wing. The results reveal that the flow on the upper surface of the delta wing changes significantly in a wide range of the angle of attack. For the vortical flow at moderate angle of attack, the secondary and tertiary vortices are weakened or suppressed, and the total lift is almost unchanged. For the stalled flow at high angle of attack, the leading edge concentrated vortex is recovered, and the lift is enhanced with increasing suction rate. For the bluff-body flow at even high angles of attack, the lift can still be improved. The concentrated vortex disappears on the upper surface, and the load increment is nearly unchanged along the chordwise direction.展开更多
Visualization test is performed at the water channel of BUAA. The vortex coreis visualized by dye injection from a small tube located upstream the apex of a delta wing. Thetest results are recorded by a video camera c...Visualization test is performed at the water channel of BUAA. The vortex coreis visualized by dye injection from a small tube located upstream the apex of a delta wing. Thetest results are recorded by a video camera connected to a computer and processed by Photoshop^(^R)software. The test shows new findings in the following respects: (1) Besides the well known spiraland bubble forms of vortex breakdown, there are 3 other forms of vortex breakdown over delta wingfound in the test. They are the frog-jump form, the double spiral form and the filiform spiral form.(2) It has also been found that there is a transition from the spiral form to the bubble form andthen back to the spiral form in the test. Therefore it shows that the spiral form vortex breakdownover delta wing is often observed. (3) In a certain sense it can be said that the bubble form ofvortex breakdown is a special case of the spiral form type. There is no essential difference betweenthem. For the bubble form of vortex breakdown , there are branches of the vortex core and manyelements carrying vorticity separated from the vortex core. However, there is at least one vortexfilament that forms a spiral or a complex warping shape.展开更多
Compared with a delta wing aircraft, the double delta wing configuration has better aerodynamic performance at high angles of attack. An operational analysis was introduced as a method for evaluating training effecti...Compared with a delta wing aircraft, the double delta wing configuration has better aerodynamic performance at high angles of attack. An operational analysis was introduced as a method for evaluating training effectiveness of trainer aircraft. Approaches to the engineering estimation of aerodynamic characteristics for aircraft with a double delta wing configuration were studied, and the procedures for determining aircraft performance indices formulated. Taking training effectiveness as the objective function and geometric parameters of the wing platform as design variables, through a numerical multivariate optimization arithmetic, the conceptual design optimization for a certain fighter trainer aircraft with double delta wing configuration was carried out under the constraints of tactical and technical requirements and interrelated geometry. Agreement of a calculation example with engineering practice indicates that the optimal design has higher training effectiveness than the baseline design, and in addition, improves the structural force bearing conditions.展开更多
An investigation of the hysteresis of vortex breakdown over pitching-up deltawings is presented. Based on experiments, there are two main reasons which can be usedto explain the hysteresis of vortex breakdown. One is ...An investigation of the hysteresis of vortex breakdown over pitching-up deltawings is presented. Based on experiments, there are two main reasons which can be usedto explain the hysteresis of vortex breakdown. One is the time or phase lag due to the ini-tial suPerPOsition of linearized small disturbance, which enlarges the range of the incidenceof keeping attached flow and postpones the initial incidence of vortex breakdown. Theother is the reduction of adverse pressure gradient due to the periphery centrifugal instabil-ity after the concentrated vortex has come into being, which is the key reason of hystere-sis of vortex breakdown- The structure of vortex over a pitching up delta wing can be di-vided into three layers, which is not a significant a1teration compared with that of vortexover a static delta wing.展开更多
Recently, various studies of micro air vehicle (MAV) and unmanned air vehicle (UAV) have been reported from wide range points of view. The aim of this study is to research the aerodynamic improvement of delta wing...Recently, various studies of micro air vehicle (MAV) and unmanned air vehicle (UAV) have been reported from wide range points of view. The aim of this study is to research the aerodynamic improvement of delta wing in low Reynold's number region to develop an applicative these air vehicle. As an attractive tool in delta wing, leading edge flap (LEF) is employed to directly modify the strength and structure of vortices originating from the separation point along the leading edge. Various configurations of LEF such as drooping apex flap and upward deflected flap are used in combination to enhance the aerodynamic characteristics in the delta wing. The fluid force measurement by six component toad ceil and particle image velocimetry (PIV) analysis are performed as the experimental method. The relations between the aerodynamic superiority and the vortex behavior around the models are demonstrated.展开更多
The potential for harvesting energy from a flexible delta wing using a piezoelectric bimorph is experimentally investigated.Different configurations of the proposed harvesting system were tested in a wind tunnel over ...The potential for harvesting energy from a flexible delta wing using a piezoelectric bimorph is experimentally investigated.Different configurations of the proposed harvesting system were tested in a wind tunnel over a broad range of airspeeds.In addition to evaluating the level of harvested power,an analysis is performed to extract critical aspects for the relation between speed,flexibility,geometry and the potential power that can be harvested from a clamped,cantilevered flexible delta wing at low angles of attack and low speeds.This analysis provides an insight into parameters that impact energy harvesting from flexible membranes or elements.展开更多
The purpose of the paper is to clarify the mechanism of generation and collapse of a longitudinal vortex system induced around the leading edge of a delta wing. CFD captured well characteristics of flow structure of t...The purpose of the paper is to clarify the mechanism of generation and collapse of a longitudinal vortex system induced around the leading edge of a delta wing. CFD captured well characteristics of flow structure of the vortex system. It is found that the vortex system has a cone-shaped configuration, and both rotational velocity and vorticity have their largest values at the tip of the vortex and reduce downstream along the vortical axis. This resulted in inducing the largest negative pressure at the tip of the delta wing surface. The collapse of the vortex system was also studied. The system can still remain until the tip angle of 110 degrees. However, between 110 degrees and 120 degrees, the system becomes unstable. Over 120 degrees, the characteristics of the vortex are considered to have converted from the longitudinal vortex to the transverse one.展开更多
Aerodynamic noise has been impairing the comfort of passengers in automobiles.Studies have shown that the aerodynamic noise is generated by the separation of the flow and the generation of the longitudinal vortex at t...Aerodynamic noise has been impairing the comfort of passengers in automobiles.Studies have shown that the aerodynamic noise is generated by the separation of the flow and the generation of the longitudinal vortex at the front pillar(A-pillar)and the door mirror.To remove the effects of the door mirror and extract the longitudinal vortex from A-pillar,studies employ the delta wing model.This research also employed the model and observed relations between the generated sound from the vortex at the A-pillar and the surface pressure fluctuation of the wing.The experiment was carried out in a wind tunnel of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA)wind tunnel using the delta wing model.The radiated sound was measured using a far-field microphone to characterize the sound,and microphone array to conduct sound source exploration.Distribution of surface pressure fluctuation was measured using electret condenser microphones.Results showed that the radiated sound has a characteristic of dipole sound,and broadband sound from 1 kHz is radiated from the apex of the wing.Those indicate that sound generated from the apex of the delta wing was scattered at the surface of the delta wing,which follows the Lighthill-Curle theory.Surface pressure fluctuation with high fluctuation was distributed following the cone-like shape of the longitudinal vortex.Their peaks moved to the apex with the frequency increase.Coherence between far-field sound and surface pressure fluctuation was calculated.The point which is 70 mm inward from the apex showed higher value than those at the apex.As the diameter of the longitudinal vortex grows at the downstream,it is considered that a certain vortex scale radiates the most noise.展开更多
Flow around the front pillar of an automobile is typical of a flow field with separated and reattached flow by a vortex system. It is known that the vortex system causes the greatest aerodynamic sound around a vehicle...Flow around the front pillar of an automobile is typical of a flow field with separated and reattached flow by a vortex system. It is known that the vortex system causes the greatest aerodynamic sound around a vehicle. The objective of the present study is to clarify the relationship between vortical structures and aerodynamic sound by the vortex system generated around the front pillar. The vortex system consists of the longitudinal and the transverse system. The characteristics of the longitudinal vortex system were investigated in comparison with the transverse one. Two vortex systems were reproduced by three-dimensional delta wings. The flow visualization experiment and the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) captured well the characteristics of the flow structure of the two vortex systems. These results showed that the longitudinal with the rotating axis along mean flow direction had cone-shaped configuration whereas the transverse with the rotating axis vertical to mean flow direction had elliptic one. Increasing the tip angles of the wings from 40 to 140 degrees, there first exists the longitudinal vortex system less than 110 degrees, with the transition region ranging from 110 to 120 degrees, and finally over 120 degrees the transverse appears. The characteristics of aerodynamic sound radiated from the two vortex systems were investigated in low Mach numbers, high Reynolds number turbulent flows in the lownoise wind tunnel. As a result, it was found that the aerodynamic sound radiated from both the longitudinal and the transverse vortex system was proportional to the fifth from sixth power of mean flow velocity, and that the longitudinal vortex generated the aerodynamic sound larger than the transverse.展开更多
The concept vortex force in aerodynamics is sys- tematically examined based on a new steady vortex-force theory (Wu et al., Vorticity and vortex dynamics, Springer, 2006) which expresses the aerodynamic force (and ...The concept vortex force in aerodynamics is sys- tematically examined based on a new steady vortex-force theory (Wu et al., Vorticity and vortex dynamics, Springer, 2006) which expresses the aerodynamic force (and moment) by the volume and boundary integrals of the Lamb vector. In this paper, the underlying physics of this theory is explored, including the general role of the Lamb vector in non- linear aerodynamics, its initial formation, and its relevance to the total-pressure non-uniformity. As a typical example, the theory is applied to the flow over a slender delta wing at a large angle of attack. The highly localized flow structures with high Lamb-vector peaks are identified in terms of their net contribution to various constituents of the total aerody-namic force. This vortex-force diagnosis sheds new light on the flow control and configuration optimization.展开更多
The Longitudinal Aerodynamic Characteristics (LACs)of a wing-body without tail unit is computed and tested in wind tunnel. The empirical formulas of Datcom and some other authors are applied to estimate the basic Ae...The Longitudinal Aerodynamic Characteristics (LACs)of a wing-body without tail unit is computed and tested in wind tunnel. The empirical formulas of Datcom and some other authors are applied to estimate the basic Aerodynamic Coefficients. Two wing options are covered as analysis space, namely, the double-delta wing and streak wing, getting two analysis groups respectively. Good agreement between the computation results and the wind tunnel tests shows that the methodology presented is a simple and reliable way to calculate this kind of novel wing-body configurations.展开更多
The effects of thickness-to-chord(t=c)ratio,anhedral angle(d),and cropping ratio from trailing-edge(Cr%)on the aerodynamics of non-slender reverse delta wings in comparison to non-slender delta wings with sweep angle ...The effects of thickness-to-chord(t=c)ratio,anhedral angle(d),and cropping ratio from trailing-edge(Cr%)on the aerodynamics of non-slender reverse delta wings in comparison to non-slender delta wings with sweep angle of 45°were characterized in a low-speed wind tunnel using force and pressure measurements.The measurements were conducted for total of 8 different delta and reverse delta wings.Two different t/c ratios of 5.9%and 1.1%,and two different anhedral angles ofd=15°and 30°for non-cropped and cropped at Cr=30%conditions were tested.The results indicate that the reverse delta wings generate higher lift-to-drag ratio and have better longitudinal static stability characteristics compared to the delta wings.The wing thickness has favorable effect on longitudinal static stability for the reverse delta wing whereas longitudinal static stability is not influenced by wing thickness for the delta wing.For reverse delta wings,the anhe-draled wing without cropping has adverse effect on aerodynamic performance and decreases the lift-to-drag ratio.Cropping in anhedraled wing causes significant improvement in lift-to-drag ratio,shift in aerodynamic and pressure centers towards the trailing-edge,and enhancement in longitudi-nal static stability.展开更多
采用流场解算器TRIP2.0(Trisonic Platform version 2.0),在与风洞测力试验比较的基础上,研究了多种跨超声速来流状态下某三角翼布局基本外形气动特性以及前缘涡的产生和发展。数值模拟结果揭示了在不同马赫数、攻角、侧滑角条件下,前...采用流场解算器TRIP2.0(Trisonic Platform version 2.0),在与风洞测力试验比较的基础上,研究了多种跨超声速来流状态下某三角翼布局基本外形气动特性以及前缘涡的产生和发展。数值模拟结果揭示了在不同马赫数、攻角、侧滑角条件下,前缘涡的产生、发展和破裂过程及其对气动特性的影响。在背风区旋涡结构随马赫数的变化关系上,数值模拟结果显示,亚声速旋涡破裂发生在逆压区,破裂从涡轴上开始,超声速旋涡不易破裂,除非在激波的作用下变为亚声速旋涡,该结果在定性上与理论分析结果取得来了较好的一致。对有侧滑角状态下,背风区旋涡的流动特性进行了研究,得到一些有价值的结论。展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (19802018).
文摘The numerical investigation has been performed to explore the feasibility of vortex control by leading edge sucking excitation on a delta wing. The results reveal that the flow on the upper surface of the delta wing changes significantly in a wide range of the angle of attack. For the vortical flow at moderate angle of attack, the secondary and tertiary vortices are weakened or suppressed, and the total lift is almost unchanged. For the stalled flow at high angle of attack, the leading edge concentrated vortex is recovered, and the lift is enhanced with increasing suction rate. For the bluff-body flow at even high angles of attack, the lift can still be improved. The concentrated vortex disappears on the upper surface, and the load increment is nearly unchanged along the chordwise direction.
文摘Visualization test is performed at the water channel of BUAA. The vortex coreis visualized by dye injection from a small tube located upstream the apex of a delta wing. Thetest results are recorded by a video camera connected to a computer and processed by Photoshop^(^R)software. The test shows new findings in the following respects: (1) Besides the well known spiraland bubble forms of vortex breakdown, there are 3 other forms of vortex breakdown over delta wingfound in the test. They are the frog-jump form, the double spiral form and the filiform spiral form.(2) It has also been found that there is a transition from the spiral form to the bubble form andthen back to the spiral form in the test. Therefore it shows that the spiral form vortex breakdownover delta wing is often observed. (3) In a certain sense it can be said that the bubble form ofvortex breakdown is a special case of the spiral form type. There is no essential difference betweenthem. For the bubble form of vortex breakdown , there are branches of the vortex core and manyelements carrying vorticity separated from the vortex core. However, there is at least one vortexfilament that forms a spiral or a complex warping shape.
文摘Compared with a delta wing aircraft, the double delta wing configuration has better aerodynamic performance at high angles of attack. An operational analysis was introduced as a method for evaluating training effectiveness of trainer aircraft. Approaches to the engineering estimation of aerodynamic characteristics for aircraft with a double delta wing configuration were studied, and the procedures for determining aircraft performance indices formulated. Taking training effectiveness as the objective function and geometric parameters of the wing platform as design variables, through a numerical multivariate optimization arithmetic, the conceptual design optimization for a certain fighter trainer aircraft with double delta wing configuration was carried out under the constraints of tactical and technical requirements and interrelated geometry. Agreement of a calculation example with engineering practice indicates that the optimal design has higher training effectiveness than the baseline design, and in addition, improves the structural force bearing conditions.
文摘An investigation of the hysteresis of vortex breakdown over pitching-up deltawings is presented. Based on experiments, there are two main reasons which can be usedto explain the hysteresis of vortex breakdown. One is the time or phase lag due to the ini-tial suPerPOsition of linearized small disturbance, which enlarges the range of the incidenceof keeping attached flow and postpones the initial incidence of vortex breakdown. Theother is the reduction of adverse pressure gradient due to the periphery centrifugal instabil-ity after the concentrated vortex has come into being, which is the key reason of hystere-sis of vortex breakdown- The structure of vortex over a pitching up delta wing can be di-vided into three layers, which is not a significant a1teration compared with that of vortexover a static delta wing.
文摘Recently, various studies of micro air vehicle (MAV) and unmanned air vehicle (UAV) have been reported from wide range points of view. The aim of this study is to research the aerodynamic improvement of delta wing in low Reynold's number region to develop an applicative these air vehicle. As an attractive tool in delta wing, leading edge flap (LEF) is employed to directly modify the strength and structure of vortices originating from the separation point along the leading edge. Various configurations of LEF such as drooping apex flap and upward deflected flap are used in combination to enhance the aerodynamic characteristics in the delta wing. The fluid force measurement by six component toad ceil and particle image velocimetry (PIV) analysis are performed as the experimental method. The relations between the aerodynamic superiority and the vortex behavior around the models are demonstrated.
基金support of the Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systemsthe National Science Foundation of United States under Grant 1035042
文摘The potential for harvesting energy from a flexible delta wing using a piezoelectric bimorph is experimentally investigated.Different configurations of the proposed harvesting system were tested in a wind tunnel over a broad range of airspeeds.In addition to evaluating the level of harvested power,an analysis is performed to extract critical aspects for the relation between speed,flexibility,geometry and the potential power that can be harvested from a clamped,cantilevered flexible delta wing at low angles of attack and low speeds.This analysis provides an insight into parameters that impact energy harvesting from flexible membranes or elements.
文摘The purpose of the paper is to clarify the mechanism of generation and collapse of a longitudinal vortex system induced around the leading edge of a delta wing. CFD captured well characteristics of flow structure of the vortex system. It is found that the vortex system has a cone-shaped configuration, and both rotational velocity and vorticity have their largest values at the tip of the vortex and reduce downstream along the vortical axis. This resulted in inducing the largest negative pressure at the tip of the delta wing surface. The collapse of the vortex system was also studied. The system can still remain until the tip angle of 110 degrees. However, between 110 degrees and 120 degrees, the system becomes unstable. Over 120 degrees, the characteristics of the vortex are considered to have converted from the longitudinal vortex to the transverse one.
文摘Aerodynamic noise has been impairing the comfort of passengers in automobiles.Studies have shown that the aerodynamic noise is generated by the separation of the flow and the generation of the longitudinal vortex at the front pillar(A-pillar)and the door mirror.To remove the effects of the door mirror and extract the longitudinal vortex from A-pillar,studies employ the delta wing model.This research also employed the model and observed relations between the generated sound from the vortex at the A-pillar and the surface pressure fluctuation of the wing.The experiment was carried out in a wind tunnel of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA)wind tunnel using the delta wing model.The radiated sound was measured using a far-field microphone to characterize the sound,and microphone array to conduct sound source exploration.Distribution of surface pressure fluctuation was measured using electret condenser microphones.Results showed that the radiated sound has a characteristic of dipole sound,and broadband sound from 1 kHz is radiated from the apex of the wing.Those indicate that sound generated from the apex of the delta wing was scattered at the surface of the delta wing,which follows the Lighthill-Curle theory.Surface pressure fluctuation with high fluctuation was distributed following the cone-like shape of the longitudinal vortex.Their peaks moved to the apex with the frequency increase.Coherence between far-field sound and surface pressure fluctuation was calculated.The point which is 70 mm inward from the apex showed higher value than those at the apex.As the diameter of the longitudinal vortex grows at the downstream,it is considered that a certain vortex scale radiates the most noise.
文摘Flow around the front pillar of an automobile is typical of a flow field with separated and reattached flow by a vortex system. It is known that the vortex system causes the greatest aerodynamic sound around a vehicle. The objective of the present study is to clarify the relationship between vortical structures and aerodynamic sound by the vortex system generated around the front pillar. The vortex system consists of the longitudinal and the transverse system. The characteristics of the longitudinal vortex system were investigated in comparison with the transverse one. Two vortex systems were reproduced by three-dimensional delta wings. The flow visualization experiment and the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) captured well the characteristics of the flow structure of the two vortex systems. These results showed that the longitudinal with the rotating axis along mean flow direction had cone-shaped configuration whereas the transverse with the rotating axis vertical to mean flow direction had elliptic one. Increasing the tip angles of the wings from 40 to 140 degrees, there first exists the longitudinal vortex system less than 110 degrees, with the transition region ranging from 110 to 120 degrees, and finally over 120 degrees the transverse appears. The characteristics of aerodynamic sound radiated from the two vortex systems were investigated in low Mach numbers, high Reynolds number turbulent flows in the lownoise wind tunnel. As a result, it was found that the aerodynamic sound radiated from both the longitudinal and the transverse vortex system was proportional to the fifth from sixth power of mean flow velocity, and that the longitudinal vortex generated the aerodynamic sound larger than the transverse.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10572005).
文摘The concept vortex force in aerodynamics is sys- tematically examined based on a new steady vortex-force theory (Wu et al., Vorticity and vortex dynamics, Springer, 2006) which expresses the aerodynamic force (and moment) by the volume and boundary integrals of the Lamb vector. In this paper, the underlying physics of this theory is explored, including the general role of the Lamb vector in non- linear aerodynamics, its initial formation, and its relevance to the total-pressure non-uniformity. As a typical example, the theory is applied to the flow over a slender delta wing at a large angle of attack. The highly localized flow structures with high Lamb-vector peaks are identified in terms of their net contribution to various constituents of the total aerody-namic force. This vortex-force diagnosis sheds new light on the flow control and configuration optimization.
文摘The Longitudinal Aerodynamic Characteristics (LACs)of a wing-body without tail unit is computed and tested in wind tunnel. The empirical formulas of Datcom and some other authors are applied to estimate the basic Aerodynamic Coefficients. Two wing options are covered as analysis space, namely, the double-delta wing and streak wing, getting two analysis groups respectively. Good agreement between the computation results and the wind tunnel tests shows that the methodology presented is a simple and reliable way to calculate this kind of novel wing-body configurations.
基金supported by Turkish Aerospace Industries,Inc.and Middle East Technical University(No.BAP TEZ-D-302-2021-10725).
文摘The effects of thickness-to-chord(t=c)ratio,anhedral angle(d),and cropping ratio from trailing-edge(Cr%)on the aerodynamics of non-slender reverse delta wings in comparison to non-slender delta wings with sweep angle of 45°were characterized in a low-speed wind tunnel using force and pressure measurements.The measurements were conducted for total of 8 different delta and reverse delta wings.Two different t/c ratios of 5.9%and 1.1%,and two different anhedral angles ofd=15°and 30°for non-cropped and cropped at Cr=30%conditions were tested.The results indicate that the reverse delta wings generate higher lift-to-drag ratio and have better longitudinal static stability characteristics compared to the delta wings.The wing thickness has favorable effect on longitudinal static stability for the reverse delta wing whereas longitudinal static stability is not influenced by wing thickness for the delta wing.For reverse delta wings,the anhe-draled wing without cropping has adverse effect on aerodynamic performance and decreases the lift-to-drag ratio.Cropping in anhedraled wing causes significant improvement in lift-to-drag ratio,shift in aerodynamic and pressure centers towards the trailing-edge,and enhancement in longitudi-nal static stability.
文摘采用流场解算器TRIP2.0(Trisonic Platform version 2.0),在与风洞测力试验比较的基础上,研究了多种跨超声速来流状态下某三角翼布局基本外形气动特性以及前缘涡的产生和发展。数值模拟结果揭示了在不同马赫数、攻角、侧滑角条件下,前缘涡的产生、发展和破裂过程及其对气动特性的影响。在背风区旋涡结构随马赫数的变化关系上,数值模拟结果显示,亚声速旋涡破裂发生在逆压区,破裂从涡轴上开始,超声速旋涡不易破裂,除非在激波的作用下变为亚声速旋涡,该结果在定性上与理论分析结果取得来了较好的一致。对有侧滑角状态下,背风区旋涡的流动特性进行了研究,得到一些有价值的结论。