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Unsteady aerodynamic loads on an aerofoil with a deflecting tab

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. P. Narkiewicz ,
A. Ling  and
G. T. S. Done
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Abstract

A thin, low cambered aerofoil with a tab at the trailing edge in inviscid, incompressible, two-dimensional, unstalled flow with varying freestream velocity and arbitrary, different motions for both aerofoil and tab is considered. The general expressions for unsteady lift and aerodynamic moment on aerofoil and tab are derived within the assumptions of potential theory.

To verify the approach proposed in this paper, the classical Theodorsen case of an oscillating aerofoil is adopted. For this case, aerofoil loads are calculated in the time domain by applying an inverse Laplace transformation to the approximation of the lift deficiency function in the frequency domain.

The comparison of the results calculated by this method with those obtained by other methods and experiments shows good agreement, which validates the general formulation. The loads on an aerofoil having different frequencies for main aerofoil pitch and tab deflection are calculated.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 99 , Issue 987 , September 1995 , pp. 282 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1995 

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Footnotes

1.

Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.

2.

Chinese Helicopter Research and Development Institute, Jingdezhen, Peoples' Republic of China.

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City University, London, UK

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