https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611402105
CFD simulation of flow-induced vibration of an elastically supported airfoil
Technical University of Liberec, NTI FM, Studentská 2, 461 17 Liberec 1, Czech Republic
a Corresponding author: petr.sidlof@tul.cz
Published online: 28 March 2016
Flow-induced vibration of lifting or control surfaces in aircraft may lead to catastrophic consequences. Under certain circumstances, the interaction between the airflow and the elastic structure may lead to instability with energy transferred from the airflow to the structure and with exponentially increasing amplitudes of the structure. In the current work, a CFD simulation of an elastically supported NACA0015 airfoil with two degrees of freedom (pitch and plunge) coupled with 2D incompressible airflow is presented. The geometry of the airfoil, mass, moment of inertia, location of the centroid, linear and torsional stiffness was matched to properties of a physical airfoil model used for wind-tunnel measurements. The simulations were run within the OpenFOAM computational package. The results of the CFD simulations were compared with the experimental data.
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