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Inviscid separated flow over a non-slender delta wing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

D. W. Moore  and
D. I. Pullin
D. W. Moore
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College of science, Technology and Medicine, Queens gate London SW7 2BZ, UK
D. I. Pullin
Affiliation:
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories 105-50, California Institute of technology, Pasedena, CA 9125, USA
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Abstract

We consider inviscid incompressible flow about an infinite non-slender flat delta wing with leading-edge separation modeled by symmetrical conical vortex sheets. A similarity solution for the three dimensional steady velocity potential Φ is sought with boundary conditions to be satisfied on the line which is the intersection of the wing sheet surface with the surface of the unit sphere. A numerical approach is developed based on the construction of a special boundary element or ‘winglet’ which is effectively a Green function for the projection of ∇2Φ = 0 onto the spherical surface under the similarity ansatz. When the wing semi-apex angle γo is fixed satisfaction of the boundary conditions of zero normal velocity on the wing and zero normal velocity and pressure continuity across the vortex sheet then leads to a nonlinear eigenvalue problem. A method of ensuring a condition of zero lateral force on a lumped model of the inner part of the rolled-up vortex sheet gives a closed set of a equations which is solved numerically by Newton's method. We present and discuss the properties of solutions for γ0 in the range 1.30 < γ <89.50. The dependencies of these solutions on γ0 differs qualitatively from predictions of slender-body theory. In particular the velocity field is in general not conical and the similarity exponent must be calculated as part of the global eigenvalue problem. This exponent, together with the detailed flow field including the position and structure of the separated vortx sheet, depend only on γ0. In the limit of small γ0, a comparison with slender-body theory is made on the basis of an effective angle of incidence.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 305 , 25 December 1995 , pp. 307 - 345
Copyright
© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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