Moving Surface Boundary Layer Technique For NACA 0012 Airfoil At Ultra-Low Reynolds Number

Kumar, Ankit

Moving Surface Boundary Layer Technique For NACA 0012 Airfoil At Ultra-Low Reynolds Number

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Ankit Kumar Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT)

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2019

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Application of moving surface boundary layer control technique has been confined to relatively high Reynolds numbers. The present paper reports a numerical study of application of the above flow technique in the ultra-low Reynolds number range. A two dimensional incompressible unstructured grid based Navier Stokes solver has been used for conducting the numerical studies. Moving surface has been applied at three different portions on the airfoil surface, firstly, in the form of a rotating leading edge portion of the airfoil, secondly, a continuous moving surface from leading edge of airfoil to 57% of the chord along the leeward surface of the airfoil and thirdly a continuous moving surface from leading edge to 97% of the chord along the leeward surface of the airfoil. All the moving surface configurations show improvement of aerodynamic performance of the airfoil through enhancement of lift and decrement of drag as compared to a fixed surface one.