LARGE AERODYNAMIC FORCES ON A SWEEPING WING AT LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER

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摘要 TheaerodynamicforcesandflowstructureofamodelinsectwingisstudiedbysolvingtheNavier-Stokesequationsnumerically.Afteraninitialstartfromrest,thewingismadetoexecuteanazimuthalrotation(sweeping)atalargeangleofattackandconstantangularvelocity.TheReynoldsnumber(Re)consideredinthepresentnoteis480(Reisbasedonthemeanchordlengthofthewingandthespeedat60%winglengthfromthewingroot).Duringtheconstant-speedsweepingmotion,thestallisabsentandlargeandapproximatelyconstantliftanddragcoefficientscanbemaintained.Themechanismfortheabsenceofthestallorthemaintenanceoflargeaerodynamicforcecoefficientsisasfollows.Soonaftertheinitialstart,avortexring,whichconsistsoftheleading-edgevortex(LEV),thestartingvortex,andthetwowing-tipvortices,isformedinthewakeofthewing.Duringthesubsequentmotionofthewing,abase-to-tipspanwiseflowconvertsthevorticityintheLEVtothewingtipandtheLEVkeepsanapproximatelyconstantstrength.ThispreventstheLEVfromshedding.Asaresult,thesizeofthevortexringincreasesapproximatelylinearlywithtime,resultinginanapproximatelyconstanttimerateofthefirstmomentofvorticity,orapproximatelyconstantliftanddragcoefficients.Thevariationoftherelativevelocityalongthewingspancausesapressuregradientalongthewingspan.Thebase-to-tipspanwiseflowismainlymaintainedbythepressure-gradientforce.
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出处 《力学学报:英文版》 2004年1期
出版日期 2004年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)