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Assignment for AE4202 – CFD for Aerospace Engineers

Introduction

The assignment should be performed in groups of two students. You are free to choose your
partner. Both team members should equally contribute to the work and submit a joint report.
Though not recommended, you could also do the work alone or submit individual reports.

The deliverable is a short report with about 10 pages, excluding title page and list of
references. The report should be submitted through Brightspace by 19 February 2024.
If you submit the report late, one point will be subtracted from the grade; a second point will
be subtracted if you submit more than one week past the due date.

Problem description

Your task is to perform 2D steady-state RANS simulations of the NLR7301 two-element


airfoil, at angles of attack alpha = 6 and 10.1 degrees, chord-length Reynolds number 2.51
million and Mach number 0.185. Note that the position of the flap is different from that of
the Fall Assignment.

You can consider ambient flow conditions with static temperature 293K and static pressure
101325 Pa. Model air as a compressible ideal gas with a dynamic viscosity given by
Sutherland’s law.

The geometry is sketched below and coordinates of the airfoil are provided in separate files.
The wing and flap coordinates are normalized by the reference chord length, which is based
on the wing chord with the flap retracted. The inflow boundary condition with turbulence
intensity 1% should be imposed far upstream of the airfoils leading edge. The reference
experimental data of the pressure coefficient are reported in different reference systems for
the wing (x,y) and the flap (xf,yf). The origin of the flap coordinate system in wing
coordinates is (x0/c,y0/c)=(0.90067,0.0156) and the angle of the flap is 𝛅f=20֯.
Tasks

1. Load the coordinates into the mesh generator of your choice. Create a suitable
computational domain that will allow you to rotate the geometry easily.

2. Mesh the computational domain with a coarse, structured multi-block grid with about
20.000 cells (grid1). Pay attention to orthogonality, smoothness and resolution of the
boundary layers. Visualize and describe blocking and mesh in the report and discuss
the mesh quality.

3. As boundary conditions, impose an adiabatic wall at the airfoil, flow direction, total
temperature, total pressure and turbulence intensity at the inflow and static pressure at
the outflow. Use a ‘high-resolution’ scheme for the spatial discretization and the
k-omega turbulence model. Report the simulation setup and discuss your choices.

4. Perform a steady state simulation at angle of attack 6 degrees with the solver of your
choice. Plot the solver residuals to verify convergence of the simulation for this and
all subsequent simulations.

5. Visualize the flow field: produce contour plots for the static pressure and velocity.
Plot the non-dimensional pressure coefficient Cp along the wing and the flap surfaces
together with the provided reference data. Extract the non-dimensional lift and drag
coefficients and summarize them in a table together with the reference coefficients.

6. Compute and plot the y+ value of grid1 along the wing and the flap. Refine the grid
such that y+ < 1 for the refined grid (grid2). Visualize the mesh, pay attention to
orthogonality and smoothness. Perform the simulation and plot y+ for grid2 to verify
that the target resolution was achieved. Critically discuss the mesh quality.

7. Perform the same post processing and visualizations as done for grid1. Include the
new Cp curve in the same figure and the lift and drag coefficients in the same table as
the results for grid 1. Describe and evaluate the results.

8. Repeat the simulation for the other angle of attack (10.1 degrees) on the fine mesh
grid 2. For this, you can either rotate the mesh or the inflow velocity vector. Plot the
solver residuals and repeat the same post processing and visualizations as done
before, compare with the provided reference data and discuss your observations.

9. In order to quantify the effect of numerical errors, repeat the simulations on the
rotated grid2 with a first-order upwind scheme. In order to quantify the effect of the
turbulence model, repeat the simulations on the rotated grid2 with a turbulence model
that can better account for anisotropic turbulence. Visualize and analyze the effect on
the results.

10. Summarize your results, discuss them critically and suggest possible improvements.

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