Effect of Leading-Edge Tubercles on Rotor Blades
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Abstract
Current rotor blade designs are limited by retreating blade stall, influenced by local airfoil stall performance in root regions, as well as compressible flow effects and drag divergence of the advancing blade in the tip regions. The application of leading edge tubercles to lifting surfaces have shown to improve post-stall performance in the subsonic regime, and to delay shock-wave formation and improve drag divergence Mach numbers in the transonic regime. This paper explores the effects of leading edge tubercles applied to a canonical rotor. Various tubercle configurations were analyzed using computational fluid dynamic simulations using Euler and RANS equations. Improvements in Figure of Merit of 9.5% were found over the baseline rotor for specific tubercle configurations when operating at a pitch angle of 2 degrees and tip Mach number of 0.794. An increase in thrust coefficients and reduction in power coefficients over the baseline rotor were both attributed to alteration of flow behaviour in different regions of the rotor due to the presence of leading edge tubercles.
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