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Títol: Application of Active Flow Control on airfoils

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Director/a: ALTMEYER, SEBASTIÁN ANDREAS

Departament: FIS

Títol: Application of Active Flow Control on airfoils

Data inici oferta: 22-01-2025     Data finalització oferta: 22-09-2025


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    MU AEROSPACE S&T 21
    MU AI4CI
    MU DRONS
    MU EM CODAS 1
    MU MASTEAM 2015
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Active Flow control, Multi-sweeping jets, Aerodynamic efficiency and optimization, Drag reduction
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
This project deals with the investigation of aerodynamic and performance parameters over an airfoil. This mainly includes the Active flow control techniques such as multi-sweeping jets which are used in airfoils/wings that will help us to analyze the lift and drag parameters. The jet configurations are studied and modified to obtain reduction of viscous drag, improvement in pressure distribution and interference effects over and below the airfoil and maximize lift coefficient.
Pre and Post processing stage would include the generation of a complete wing design with built-in sweeping jets using software as Gmesh or Solidworks. It requires parametric inputs like altering the position of jets in order to calculate the induced drag and thus decrease the drag effects. The use of this open source also results in advanced visualization capabilities of airfoil and parallel further analysis and simulation would be carried out using software as AnsysFluent or OpenFoam.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
This research examines the enhancement of aerodynamic performance of the NACA 4412 airfoil by active flow control (AFC) under stable, incompressible flow conditions, utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations in ANSYS Fluent.

The baseline case examines the airfoil's performance at different angles of attack (AOA) to identify the stall point. The airfoil incorporates synthetic jet actuators (SJA) and sweeping jet actuators (SWJ) to evaluate their effects on delaying flow separation and enhancing lift.

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