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Projecte assignat

Títol: Active Flow control on a Delta-wing - a numerical study


Director/a: ALTMEYER, SEBASTIÁN ANDREAS

Departament: FIS

Títol: Active Flow control on a Delta-wing - a numerical study

Data inici oferta: 04-11-2024     Data finalització oferta: 04-06-2025



Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIS TELECOMUN
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
    GR ENG TELEMÀTICA
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Active Flow control, Multi-sweeping jets, Aerodynamic efficiency and optimization, Drag reduction, Wind tunnel testing
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
This project deals with the investigation of aerodynamic and performance parameters of airfoils in a Low-Reynolds number regime. 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 AnsysFluent. Aside the design will be implemented in SolidWorks and a 3D model will be printed in tested at the EETAC wind tunnel. Correlation between experimental and numerical results will be analyzed.

The required software tools for the project are SolidWorks, Gmesh, Matlab, Ansys, Fluent to carry out implementation and simulations.
 
Orientació a l'estudiant:
The student will learn the main features in airfoil analysis and design, aerodynamics and optimization. She/He has to become familiarize with the main characteristic parameters, e.g.
lift and drag coefficient, efficiency, etc. Programming languages as Matlab, SolidWorks software, and Python will be learned and/or deepen. Simulations will be performed via AnsysFluent in order to find the optimal design. Finally a 3D printed model will generated and used for comparison between experimental and numerical results. Supervisor and student will meet regular basis about once a week to evaluate the progress and discuss
the following steps. In case of bigger problems the student can approach the supervisor any time in order to solve the problems as soon as possible in order to avoid any hold backs.
 
 
 
Horari d'atenció a estudiants per a l'assignació de projecte:
Regular meetings of about 1-2h will be setup weekly in order to check, discuss and evaluate the progress as well to plan the following steps. In case of bigger problems extraordinary meetings will be done as soon as possible.

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