Comparison of Aircraft Loads Using URANS and Actuator Disk Modelling of Propellers at High Incidence

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 11.933million for a range of angles of attack and side slip angles from zero to 20 degrees and 25 degrees respectively. 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 languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum
Subtitle of host publicationSession: Propeller Aerodynamics II
PublisherAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA)
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-62410-704-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jun 2023
Event2023 AIAA Aviation Forum - San Diego, Califormia, United States
Duration: 12 Jun 202316 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameAIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum

Conference

Conference2023 AIAA Aviation Forum
Country/TerritoryUnited States
Period12/06/2316/06/23

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
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/.

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 by Christopher Wales. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., with permission.

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