https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134501103
Simulation of Flow around Isolated Helicopter Fuselage
1 Kazan National Research Technical University n.a. A.N.Tupolev (KNRTU), Department of aero-hydrodynamics, Kazan, Russia
2 JSC Kazan Helicopters, Kazan, Russia
3 University of Liverpool, Department of Engineering, Liverpool, UK
a e-mail: postbox7@mail.ru
Low fuselage drag has always been a key target of helicopter manufacturers. Therefore, this paper focuses on CFD predictions of the drag of several components of a typical helicopter fuselage. In the first section of the paper, validation of the obtained CFD predictions is carried out using wind tunnel measurements. The measurements were carried out at the Kazan National Research Technical University n.a. A. Tupolev. The second section of the paper is devoted to the analysis of drag contributions of several components of the ANSAT helicopter prototype fuselage using the RANS approach. For this purpose, several configurations of fuselages are considered with different levels of complexity including exhausts and skids. Depending on the complexity of the considered configuration and CFD mesh both the multi-block structured HMB solver and the unstructured commercial tool Fluent are used. Finally, the effect of an actuator disk on the predicted drag is addressed.
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