Numerical Study on the Effects of Oscillation Frequency and Amplitude on Flow around Flapping Airfoil via an Improved Immersed Boundary Method

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1 mme.modares.ac.ir * ashrafizadeh@kntu.ac.ir *..... /77.. 2/80 0/ 22 0/4 0/3 0/7 0/ : : : NumericalStudyontheEffectsofOscillationFrequencyandAmplitude onflowaroundflappingairfoilviaanimprovedimmersedboundary Method AliAkbarHosseinjani AliAshrafizadeh * -DepartmentofMechanicalEngineering,KhajeNasirToosiUniversityofTechnology,Tehran,Iran. *P.O.B Tehran,Iran,ashrafizadeh@kntu.ac.ir ARTICLEINFORMATION ABSTRACT OriginalResearchPaper Received08April204 Accepted09June204 AvailableOnline5November204 Keywords: Immersedboundarymethod Vorticitycontours Flappingairfoil Kineticenergycontours Inthispaperanimprovedimmersedboundarymethodisusedforsimulatingsinusoidalpitching oscillations of symmetric airfoil. Immersed boundary methods which employ fixed Cartesian gridsarewellsuitedforsuchmovingboundaryproblems.twotestcasesareusedtovalidatethe proposedmethodandtheeffectsofoscillationfrequencyandamplitudeontheflowfieldare investigated.flowfieldvorticityandkineticenergycontoursarereportedinthispaper. It is found that the deflected wake appears at a Strouhal number around 0.4 for a fixed pitching amplitude equal to 0.7.chaoticlowcanbeobservedatoscillationamplitudeequalto2.80,forSt=0.22.Kinetic energycontoursatst=0.showthattheairfoiltransfersmomentumtothelowbutthedragforce alsoincreasesduetotheenergylossassociatedwiththeenlargementofseparationzonebehind theairfoil.byincreasingtheoscillationfrequencyandamplitude,momentumtransfertotheflow increasesandthedragforceis,therefore,reduced PurePlunging 2-PurePitching - : Pleasecitethisarticleusing: : A.A.Hosseinjani,A.Ashrafizadeh,NumericalStudyontheEffectsofOscillationFrequencyandAmplitudeonFlowaroundFlappingAirfoilviaanImprovedImmersed BoundaryMethod,ModaresMechanicalEngineeringVol.4,No.5,pp.29-30,205(InPersian)

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4 = ( ) (3) [30] u-u n t =-3 2 (uu)n + 2 (uu)n- + 2Re 2 (u+u n ) ( ) = () ( ) = ( ) () = ( ). (0) (4) () () = () (8) = (9) () () = n+ (0) Bi-CGSTAB [29] [3]. 6. ( ) Nearsingular 7-Fractionalstep 8-Biconjugategradientstabilizermethod (4) (5) (6) (7). () ).[23] [24] - 3 ( ). ().. 4 [26] [25]. 5 [27].... [29] [28] [28] [29]...[29] (3) -Continuousforcingmethod 2-Directforcingmethod 3-Forcingpoints 4-Ghostcell 5-Cutcell 294

5 [6] o [6] A = St = A Re =. (2) () () (2). 255 [6]. St = A = 0.36, ,.77,2.80. (3).() -. ) 4-2 ) ) (). 6-4 ) [32] 8. max [28] [29] [28] [6]

6 . = + sin(2) (3). St = 0.,0.22,0.3,0.4 A =.07.. [22]4 (3). C (num). [22]C ([22]) Tecplot A = 2.80 [22] 3 Error 0/57 0/2 /46 /82 /74 /4 0/2 0/49 0/4 [2] C ([22]) /392 /394 /567 /592 /547 /395 /429 /427 /433 C (num) /4 /397 /544 /563 /52 /4 /432 /434 /43 / 0/5 0/75 /07 /4 /2 -Deflectedvortex /5 / [2]. 2 Error = C (num) C ([2]) 00 C ([2]) C ([2]). (4) (4) C (num) Error [2]... 4 [22] 255 0/40/3 0/220/ 0/360/7/07/772/8 = kg/m = m/s kg = 5. 0 ms [2] Error /8 /8 0/56 /08 2 [2] C ([2]) 2/2 /54 /4 /37 C (num) 2/24 /522 /408 /385 Re

7 6.[6] (5) 7. C = () (5) 2 (6) C = () 2. 8 (6). [33] 6 ( ) Leadingedgevortex 2-Trailingedgevortex

8 8 9.A = 0.7 C = 0.86 C 8 St = A = St = 0.4. (St = 0.3 St = 0.22 St = 0.)

9 (8) = ( + ) (8) [4] = ( + ) (7) ) (7). - Thrust engine

10 St = St = St = A = (9). = 4 (9)

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