Unsteady Aerodynamics of Wings in Extreme Conditions
- Research Team
- Neil Sandham, Zheng-Tong Xie
- Investigators
- Charles Badoe
Sizing of civil aircraft is dictated by extreme loads experienced at the limits of flight envelope, for example during gust, turbulence or low speed manoeuvre. The project aims to understand the unsteady aerodynamic behaviour of wings in extreme conditions involving heaving motions near stall.
Categories
Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: CFD, Complex fluids, Energy, Fluid Dynamics, fluid structure interaction, Free surface flows, Heat transfer, Marine Renewable Energy, Ship Hydrodynamics, Turbulence
Simulation software: OpenFOAM
Visualisation and data handling software: Blender, Gnuplot, ParaView, VTK
Programming languages and libraries: C++