Flow around permeable and thick airfoils and numerical solution of singular integral equations
Flow around permeable and thick airfoils and numerical solution of singular integral equations
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透水厚翼型绕流及奇异积分方程数值解
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1992
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I. M. Molyakov
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I. Lifanov;A. Matveev;I. M. Molyakov
Problems of flow around permeable and thick airfoils are reduced to solution of singular second-kind variable-coefficient integral equations on a segment or to the systems of such equations. A numerical method for solving the problems is constructed. The method is based on approximating a smooth solution component by the Lagrangian polynomials. Solutions to particular aerodynamic problems are calculated. When being reduced to integral equations, many theoretical and applied problems naturally lead to linear one-dimensional singular integral equations or to the systems of such equations on open or closed curves. For example, in aerodynamics such problems arise in modelling the flow of a vorticity layer around an airfoil, in diffraction of electromagnetic waves they arise in modelling a reflecting surface by induced currents, in the theory of elasticity they arise in modelling the boundary of a body by distributed forces, etc. A theory of such equations appeared at the end of the last century in the works of D. Hubert and A. Poincare. Its foundations were laid by the studies of F. Neter and T. Karleman. In the first half of this century the theory was significantly developed by Soviet mathematicians. A somewhat complete form was given to the theory in wide-known monographs of N.I. Muskhelashvili and F. D. Gakhov. Further the theory of such equations branched in many directions such as imposing less strict conditions on the class of the sought-for solutions (the so-called L -theory), on the coefficients of the equations, etc. The methods of functional analysis and algebra are extensively used in modern studies devoted to singular integral equations. In numerous applications of singular integral equations bringing their solutions up to a numerical result is required and, consequently, efficient approximate methods of their computer-aided solution should be developed. Pioneer works on constructing numerical methods of solution of singular integral equations date back to the 1930s [13,20,37]. These works initiated a systematic study of the applicability of various approximate methods to singular integral equations in the works of S. G. Mikhlin, A. N. Kalandii, V. V. Ivanov, I. C. Gokhberg, B. G. Gabdulakhaev, I. K. Lifanov, Z. Presdorf, D. Elliott, B. Zilberman and their followers. At present there are many works that deal with approximate solution of singular integral equations. By convention, most of the works may be classified as (1) the works of theoretical character dealing with construction of computational schemes and analysis of their convergence and stability; (2) the works dealing with numerical solution of particular singular integral equations encountered in applications. The authors of the works of the first group are as a rule far from numerical solution of particular applied problems. They recommend to solve something properly 110 LK.Lifanov et al. but not always something that is necessary. The authors of the works of the second group solve something that is necessary but not always properly. However, due to applied problems becoming more and more complex and due to a progress in computer engineering there is an urgent demand for scientific groups that would consist of both 'pure' and 'applied' mathematicians and aim at constructing and justifying efficient computational schemes for solving particular applied problems and bringing their solutions up to the numerical computer implementation. The authors of this paper belong to one of such groups formed in N. E. Zhukovsky Airforce Engineering Academy for solving aerodynamic problems by a discrete vortex method. Lately in the discrete vortex method we have been developing (see [42,43]) the following approach to numerical solution of of the problem of the flow of an ideal incompressible fluid around thick airfoils, especially those with sharp trailing edge (the so-called Zhukovsky profiles). A mean line is chosen and impermeability boundary conditions on the airfoil surface are carried over to this line. As a result, outside this mean line we arrive at a boundary-value problem for the Laplace equation with the boundary conditions that contain a combination of normal and tangent derivatives of the sought-for function, the combination being different on different sides of the curve. By placing the vorticity and source layers on this line and satisfying the impermeability boundary conditions we obtain a system of singular integral equations on this line. The particular form of the system is given in Section 2. In this paper aerodynamic characteristics of permeable and impermeable, thin and thick airfoil surfaces are calculated using the vortex method which allows us to reduce the aerodynamic problems under study to solution of singular integral real-coefficient equations. For the flow around a weakly-deformable impermeable thin infinite wing (a profile) the problem is reduced to a linear one-dimensional singular first-kind integral equation with the Cauchy kernel. For the flow around a permeable thin airfoil a number of problems (for instance, the flow around a parachute) lead to singular second-kind integral variable-coefficient equations (in this case the coefficient of a singular integral is a polynomial). If the problem of flow around a thick airfoil is considered, we obtain a more general singular second-kind integral equation or the system of singular integral equations. For a permeable thin finite wing the aerodynamic problem is reducible to a two-dimensional second-kind integral equation with the Hadamard finite value integral (see Section 1). In Section 3 we consider a general theory of singular second-kind integral variablecoefficient equations on an arbitrary piecewise smooth curve in the complex-variable plane. Singular integral equations described in Sections 1 and 2 are special cases of such equations. In this section we introduce singular integral operators that are convenient in developing numerical methods for solving singular integral equations under study. We also discuss the possibility of developing the theory of singular integral equations with the Cauchy-type multiple integrals. The problem of solution of singular integral equations is represented as an operator equation for which a scheme of approximate solution is given. An approach to the approximate solution of singular integral equations considered in Section 3 is illustrated in Section 4 and 5 by an example of a real singular integral equation that appears in the aerodynamic problems described in Sections 1 and 2. In this connection we touch upon the correctness of formulation of the problem of solution of such equations. A detailed description of the computational scheme is Flow around permeable and thick airfoils 111 presented. The proposed method of numerical solution of singular integral equations with the Cauchy kernel has been implemented on a computer. In Section 6 we give some results of numerical calculations of particular aerodynamic problems. The results are compared with exact solutions and the calculations obtained with other schemes. 1. FLOW AROUND A PERMEABLE AIRFOIL Let a thin uniformly permeable airfoil section [41] be flown around by an ideal incompressible fluid which has a velocity UQ at infinity. Let us tie a coordinate system Oxy to the airfoil as shown in Fig. 1 and denote the chord of the airfoil as ba. Mathematically the problem is stated as follows. The flow is potential everywhere except for a surface S of the airfoil. The perturbed velocity potential φ obeys the Laplace equation at any point M£S: