Comparison of Aircraft Loads Using URANS and Actuator Disk Modelling of Propellers

Christopher J A Wales; Dorian P Jones; Ann L Gaitonde; Peter Risley-Settle; Andrew Peace

doi:10.2514/6.2022-3684

Comparison of Aircraft Loads Using URANS and Actuator Disk Modelling of Propellers

Christopher J A Wales, Dorian P Jones, Ann L Gaitonde, Peter Risley-Settle, Andrew Peace

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Abstract

A comparison of simulations are performed using both steady RANS with an actuator disk model to represent the propellers and URANS with full rotating blade geometry, for the Clean Sky 2 flying test bed 2, which is a regional turboprop with co-rotating propellers. The simulations are performed for a cruise configuration at Mach 0.2 and a Reynolds number of 11.933 × 10^6 for a range of angles of attack and side slip angles. The generation of the database for the actuator disk model is explained, along with the calibration of the blade angle to give a specified thrust. Aerodynamic coefficients for both the airframe and the propellers are extracted and compared with wind-tunnel data from an atmospheric wind-tunnel test undertaken in a previous Clean Sky 2 project (ReLOAD).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum
Subtitle of host publication	Session: Propeller/Rotorcraft/Wind Turbine Aerodynamics I
Publisher	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA)
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-62410-635-4
ISBN (Print)	9781624106354
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3684
Publication status	Published - 20 Jun 2022
Event	AIAA AVIATION Forum - Chicago, United States Duration: 27 Jun 2022 → 1 Jul 2022 https://www.aiaa.org/aviation/

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City	Chicago
Period	27/06/22 → 1/07/22
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This work was carried out within the Clean Sky 2 research programme PERTURB, funded under grant number 831927. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of Airbus Defence and Space. The URANS calculations presented were carried out using the computational facilities of the Advanced Computing Research Centre, University of Bristol - http://www.bristol.ac.uk/acrc/.

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Wales, C. J. A., Jones, D. P., Gaitonde, A. L., Risley-Settle, P., & Peace, A. (2022). Comparison of Aircraft Loads Using URANS and Actuator Disk Modelling of Propellers. In AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum: Session: Propeller/Rotorcraft/Wind Turbine Aerodynamics I Article AIAA 2022-3684 (AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum). American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA). https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3684

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Wales, CJA , Jones, DP , Gaitonde, AL, Risley-Settle, P & Peace, A 2022, Comparison of Aircraft Loads Using URANS and Actuator Disk Modelling of Propellers. in AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum: Session: Propeller/Rotorcraft/Wind Turbine Aerodynamics I., AIAA 2022-3684, AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA), AIAA AVIATION Forum, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 27/06/22. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3684

Comparison of Aircraft Loads Using URANS and Actuator Disk Modelling of Propellers. / Wales, Christopher J A ; Jones, Dorian P ; Gaitonde, Ann L et al.
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