• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

To predict the transonic buffet onset for a supercritical airfoil with shock-boundary layer interactions, a practical steady approach has been proposed. In this study, it is assumed that the airfoil flow is steady even when buffet onset occurs. Steady Navier-Stokes computations are performed on the supercritical airfoil. Using the aerodynamic parameters calculated from Navier-Stokes solver, various steady approaches for predicting buffet onset are discussed. Among the various steady approaches considered in this study, Thomas' criterion based on Navier-Stokes computation has shown to be the most appropriate indicator of identifying the buffet onset for a supercritical airfoil with shock-boundary layer interactions. Good agreements have been obtained compared with the results of unsteady transonic wind tunnel tests. The present method is shown to be reliable and useful for transonic buffet onset for a supercritical airfoil with shock-boundary layer interactions in terms of practical engineering viewpoint.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2006

고속 항공기의 천음속 버펫 발단을 예측할 수 있는 새로운 정상 접근 방법을 개발하였다. 본 논문에서는 버펫 발단까지 정상 유동장으로 가정하였다. 본 연구는 다양한 정적 공력 변수들의 급격한 변화 분석을 포함하고 있다. 이러한 급격한 변화는 천음속 버펫의 발단을 지시한다. 본 연구에서 고려된 다양한 공력 변수 가운데 압력 중심점 변화가 가장 명확한 천음속 충격파 버펫 발단 지시자임을 보여준다. 이러한 새로운 정상 접근 방법은 박리기포를 수반하는 익형이나 큰 후퇴각과 작은 종횡비를 갖는 날개의 천음속 버펫 발단 예측에 적용할 수 있다. 버펫 시험결과와 비교하여 좋은 일치를 얻었다. 새로운 정적 접근 방법 결과를 기초로, 압력 중심점 변화 곡선의 급격한 기울기 변화는 항공기 전 기체 형상에 대한 정상 시험 방법 버펫 발단 지시자로 새롭게 제시할 수 있다.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.145-167
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• 2017

The presented paper gives an overview of several projects addressing the experimental characterization and control of the buffet phenomenon on 3D turbulent wings in transonic flow conditions. This aerodynamic instability induces strong wall pressure fluctuations and therefore limits flight domain. Consequently, to enlarge the latter but also to provide more flexibility during the design phase, it is interesting to try to delay the buffet onset. This paper summarizes the main investigations leading to the achievement of open and closed-loop buffet control and its experimental demonstration. Several wind tunnel tests campaigns, performed on a 3D half wing/fuselage body, enabled to characterize the buffet aerodynamic instability and to study the efficiency of innovative fluidic control devices designed and manufactured by ONERA. The analysis of the open-loop databases demonstrated the effects on the usual buffet characteristics, especially on the shock location and the separation areas on the wing suction side. Using these results, a closed-loop control methodology based on a quasi-steady approach was defined and several architectures were tested for various parameters such as the input signal, the objective function, the tuning of the feedback gain. All closed-loop methods were implemented on a dSPACE device able to estimate in real time the fluidic actuators command calculated mainly from the unsteady pressure sensors data. The efficiency of delaying the buffet onset or limiting its effects was demonstrated using the quasi-steady closed-loop approach and tested in both research and industrial wind tunnel environments.