Investigation of RANS reliability for transonic airfoils
Giovannino Cirullo
Investigation of RANS reliability for transonic airfoils.
Rel. Renzo Arina. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Aerospaziale, 2021
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Abstract
The principal topic of this internship has been the investigation of the reliability of 2D numerical simulations in predicting the flowfield for airfoils with a strong aft-camber. Recently, a wind tunnel test campaign was carried out by Airbus for supercritical airfoils at different transonic conditions. The results of this campaign were analysed at ONERA and a large inconsistency between numerical and experimental results was found. Following the previous analyses, this internship aimed at quantifying this inconsistency between CFD (Computational Fluid-Dynamics) and experimental data, to propose an approach that could improve numerical predictions, by assimilating the constants of the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model, and, finally, to analyse the effects of the assimilated constants on the boundary layer properties.
The main tools used are numerical-type: the "elsA" and "ISES" CFD codes, Python, the BIRDIE optimisation code and the post-processing software called TEC360
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