Transient process of separation and attachment over a NACA 0015 airfoil controlled by fluidic vortex generators
Transient process of separation and attachment over a NACA 0015 airfoil controlled by fluidic vortex generators
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2008
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W. L. Siauw
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W. L. Siauw
This is an experimental study dedicated to the transient processes of flow separation and attachment over a NACA 0015 airfoil. Tests are performed at a Reynolds number of 1 million with the airfoil pitched at an incidence of 11o. The uncontrolled state is characterised by a separation size of 30% upstream from the trailing edge with minimal model vibration. A spanwise array of 44 angled fluidic vortex generators (FVG) is positioned at 30 percent of chord from the leading edge to control flow separation. Effects of the FVG are characterized by 16% improvement in CL and 30% reduction in Cd during the controlled steady state. These conditions allow deterministic changes in the wake and shear layer when operating the FVG in an “on-off” manner at a frequency of 1 Hz. It is estimated from the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) of the conditional averaged PIV data in the wake that the time taken for the separation (ΔT+~20) is twice that of attachment (ΔT+~10). A reduced order model has been realized based on the first four temporal modes, which represent 98% of the energy, of the POD. In a second experiment, pressure signals in the separated zone of the airfoil, are used as conditional signals to estimate the evolution of the fluctuating velocities using technique of Linear Stochastic Estimation (LSE). The velocities are acquired from a crosswire traversing in the wake at xA/c=2 and the shear layer at xA/c=0. 91. A double and single vortex streets has been estimated in the wake and shear layer, respectively for the baseline uncontrolled case. In the case of the transient process in the wake during FVG deployment, there is an increase in the size of the vortex streets followed by a decrease in size. In the reverse process, there is a gradual re-establishment of the shear layer and gradual enlargement of the wake. The ability of the pressure signals in describing evolution of coherent structures motivates the use of its moving rms, after being filtered to retain the energy containing scales of the flow, to anticipate the onset of flow separation.