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Separation flow around airfoil with upstream disturbance by discrete vortex method

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Date Issued:
1991
Summary:
The discrete vortex method was applied to the calculation of separation flow past NACA 4412 airfoil: Vortex panel was used to represent the body surface and discrete vortices were used to model the wake. Generally the uniform upstream condition is used in the calculation of separation flow. But actually an airfoil could move in wake of other airfoils or disturbed fluid. In this thesis, discrete vortices were used to model the upstream disturbance to investigate the effect of upstream disturbance to the pressure, lift and drag coefficients around the airfoil. Also the animation of separation flow was made on HP workstation using "Starbase" computer graphic package to study the separation process.
Title: Separation flow around airfoil with upstream disturbance by discrete vortex method.
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Name(s): Li, Feng.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Su, Tsung-Chow, Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1991
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 112 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The discrete vortex method was applied to the calculation of separation flow past NACA 4412 airfoil: Vortex panel was used to represent the body surface and discrete vortices were used to model the wake. Generally the uniform upstream condition is used in the calculation of separation flow. But actually an airfoil could move in wake of other airfoils or disturbed fluid. In this thesis, discrete vortices were used to model the upstream disturbance to investigate the effect of upstream disturbance to the pressure, lift and drag coefficients around the airfoil. Also the animation of separation flow was made on HP workstation using "Starbase" computer graphic package to study the separation process.
Identifier: 14739 (digitool), FADT14739 (IID), fau:11530 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.
Subject(s): Vortex-motion
Fluid dynamics
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