Investigating the Impact of Using CFD Generated Unsteady Mach Number Dynamic Stall Data for Numerical Rotor Analysis of Helicopter Forward Flight
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Abstract
When the rotor blades are at a high advance ratio and/or a high thrust coefficient, the onset of dynamic stall makes accurate prediction of airloads on the rotor blades difficult.Comprehensive rotor analysis codes used in the industry rely on semi-empirical dynamic stall models to generate the aerodynamic coefficients of the blade sections undergoing dynamic stall.However, these models neglect the unsteady nature of the freestream seen by the blade sections compromising the accuracy of the analysis at high speed forward flight and high blade loading conditions.Thus, this thesis aims to investigate the impact of including the unsteady freestream effects in dynamic stall for the prediction of the airloads on the rotor blades.To study the impact of including the unsteady nature of the freestream in dynamic stall, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was used to generate the unsteady 2D dynamic stall aerodynamic data.The CFD data then served as inputs to the in-house rotor analysis code called Qoptr to generate blade airload results.The flight test data from a steady-level flight case (C T /σ = 0.129, µ = 0.24) from the UH-60A Airloads program was used for validation.The Qoptr blade airload results generated with the unsteady CFD dynamic stall data showed considerably better agreement with the flight test data than the results generated with semi-empirical dynamic stall models, especially in the sectional moment results.
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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