announcements/opportunities - virginia techmason/mason_f/class14.pdf · 2011-04-01 · aerospace...
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Announcements/Opportunities
• Next year’s Aircraft Design class:– We will (again) have a joint team with ME to build and
fly a morphing airplane– Send me email: [email protected] to apply– We will have 4 AEs on this team
• Undergraduate research:- lots of opportunities to help the design class software
and do student AIAA papers, see me if you areinterested.
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AOE 3054AOE 3054Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringAerospace and Ocean Engineering
Instrumentation and LaboratoryInstrumentation and Laboratory
A Lectureon
Aerodynamic Testing
W.H. Mason
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Overview
• Where you test• Why you test• How you test• Some specifics for your lab
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The NTF at NASA LangleyHampton, VA
Performance: M = 0.2 to 1.20PT = 1 to 9 atmTT = 77° to 350° Kelvin
Feb. 1982
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The Full Scale Tunnel at NASA Ames
80x120 FootTest Section
40x80 FootTest Section
Aviation Week & Space Technology, Dec. 7, 1987
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Information Sources
• Lot's of introductory material on Aero Test in the manual: read it!• The standard reference book:
Barlow, Rae and Pope,Low Speed Wind Tunnel Testing
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Wind Tunnel Testing is Expensive
Preparation and planning are required to get into any tunnel:• Make pre-test estimates• Prepare a pre-test report including a Run Schedule
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So Will the Computer Eliminate the WT?
One complete airplane development requiresabout 2.5 million aerodynamic simulations.
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Key Items• Safety, accidents can happen• Pretest Planning - the key to success• Model Design• The Run schedule• Typical Tests:
- force and moment both performance, stability, and control- pressure distributions- flow diagnostics on and off surface flow visualization
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Test Hours, F-16 WT Test
0 500 1000 1500 2000
general arrangementwing planform,camber
LE & TE flapsstrake developmentcontrol deflections
storesstore loads
pressure loadsinlet
flutterstore separation
spin/stallspillage and nozzle
miscellaneous
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Research Fighter Configuration (RFC)Visualization with a Tuft Grid
Small Model in Grumman Tunnel
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Another Way To Do Flow Diagnostics
Kurt Chankaya, Grumman (now Lockheed)
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Typical way to put tufts on the wing
From Pope and Harper’s text, taken in the Wichita State tunnel
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Oil Flows for Surface Visualization 1
SC3 Wing, M = 1.62, a = 8° (nominally attached)
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Oil Flows for Surface Visualization 2
SC3 Wing, M = 1.62, a = 12° (TE flow separation)
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Laser Light Sheet example
Aviation Week & Space Technology, July 29, 1985
Light Sheet from anargon laser, theflow is seeded withan standard smokegenerator.
Northrop IR & Dexample of vortexflow over a deltawing configuration.Exhibited at the36th Paris air show.
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Model Fabrication:
• Accuracy important!- drag, under all conditions- low speed near max lift- transonic cruise condition
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WT model with high LE accuracy Req’ts.Supercritical Conical Camber (SC3)Wing, developed using CFD.The leading edge contour accuracy iscritical.
Note the arc of the wingalong the trailing edge,a sort of “gull shape”
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Inspecting the Model Leading Edge
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Fab agrees with designed contour!
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Simulation Issues
• Fundamental: Mach number and Reynolds number- Match Mach, do your best on Reynolds, leads to:- transition fixing
• Test issues:- wall interference, flow angularity, nonuniformity
• Adjustment from model scale to full scale
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Tunnel/Mounting Interference
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Sue Grafton with RFC at NASA Langley
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RFC in the 30x60 at Langley: static tests
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Free Flight Setup: A complicated activity
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RFC Model in Free Flight at Langley
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The Tunnel
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The Virginia Tech Stability Tunnel• A high quality flowfield
- uniform mean flow- low turbulence level- low flow angularity
• came from NASA in 1958• 6'x6' test section, 24 ' long• 600 hp motor/14' fan• 275 fps max speed
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Virginia Tech Stability Tunnel Layout
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Velocity Variation in the Test Section
0.96
0.98
1.00
1.02
1.04
-2.0 -1.5 -1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0
V/Vref, U = 125 fps, Z = 0 ftV/Vref, U = 125 fps, Z = 0.5 ftV/Vref, U = 200 fps, Z = 0.0 ftV/Vref, U = 200 fps, Z = 0.5 ft
Virginia Tech Stability Wind TunnelMean Flow Calibration Characteristics
V/Vref
VPI Aero-161, Dec. 1987
y, ft
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Upwash Variation in the Test Section
-1.50°
-1.00°
-0.50°
0.00°
0.50°
1.00°
1.50°
-2.0 -1.5 -1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0
Alpha, U = 125 fps, Z = 0 ftAlpha, U = 125 fps, Z = 0.5 ftAlpha, U = 200 fps, Z = 0.0 ftAlpha, U = 200 fps, Z = 0.5 ft
Virginia Tech Stability Wind TunnelMean Flow Calibration Characteristics
a
y, ft
VPI Aero-161, Dec. 1987
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Sidewash Variation in the Test Section
-2.00°
-1.50°
-1.00°
-0.50°
0.00°
0.50°
1.00°
-2.0 -1.5 -1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0
Beta, U = 125 fps, Z = 0 ftBeta, U = 125 fps, Z = 0.5 ftBeta, U = 200 fps, Z = 0.0 ftBeta, U = 200 fps, Z = 0.5 ft
Virginia Tech Stability Wind TunnelMean Flow Calibration Characteristics
b
y, ft
VPI Aero-161, Dec. 1987
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Use a Strain Gage Force Balanceto Measure Loads
Tension change in wire changes resistance
You used one before?
• Assume that the balance is adequatelycalibrated - we will not check it this year
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Strain Gages
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Mechanics for this lab:
• two weeks• 1st week - get ready
- check out tunnel, make pretest estimates• 2nd week: test!
- run the model
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The Tests!
New this year: we have 2 possibilities:1. The “standard” rectangular wing2. The Pelikan Tail (from a senior design project)Your choice!
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Objective:
Use Experimental techniques to find aero characteristics of:1. A rectangular, unswept wing
• with and w/o transition stripsor
2. A novel tail concept almost used on the Boeing JSF,and subsequently adopted by our senior UCAV-N team
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The Rectangular Wing Model
The airfoil: originally a Clark Y, recently modified(thickened) to strengthen the model -How does this change the test estimates?
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Rectangular WingModel Airfoil Section
-0.05
0.00
0.05
0.10
0.15
0.20
-0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2
CLARK Y Airfoil for Aero Lab TestTheoretical Coordinates and Coordinates after Wing reinforcement
y/c uppery/c lowery/c measured
y/c
x/c
Not to scale
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Expected Lift Coefficient Variation:Rectangular Wing Model
-0.50
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
-15° -10° -5° 0° 5° 10° 15° 20° 25°
CL
a, deg.
Estimate,(Inviscid Theory)
Clark Y AirfoilAR = 5.6 Rectangular Wing
NACA dataRe = 1.0x106
VPI data,Re = .3x106
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Expected Pitching Moment:Rectangular Wing Model
-0.50
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
-0.15-0.10-0.05-0.000.05
CL
CmCm
Clark Y AirfoilAR = 5.6 Rectangular Wing
NACA data,Re = 1.0x106
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Expected Drag Coefficient Variation: Rectangular Wing Model
-0.30
-0.00
0.30
0.60
0.90
1.20
1.50
0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20
CL
CD
NACA Data, Clark Y airfoil, rectangular wing, AR = 5.6, Re = 1x10 6
Theoretical 100%Suction Polar, e = .98
Theoretical 0% Suction Polar
Wind tunnel test data
Note: Theoretical polars shifted to match experimental zero lift drag
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The Pelikan Tail
= HINGE LINE
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Pelikan Tail Plan View
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Let those seniors talk?
• Why should you do this?
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Wind Tunnel Testingis
Fun!
Good Luck