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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2008.36.3.211

Numerical Investigation of The Effect of External Stores on Tail Wing Surfaces of a Generic Fighter Aircraft  

Kim, Min-Jae (한국과학기술원 항공우주공학과 대학원)
Kwon, Oh-Joon (한국과학기술원 항공우주공학과)
Kim, Ji-Hong (한국항공우주산업(주))
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.36, no.3, 2008 , pp. 211-219 More about this Journal
Abstract
A three-dimensional inviscid flow solver has been developed based on unstructured meshes for the investigation of the effect of the external stores on the tail surfaces of a generic fighter aircraft. The numerical method is based on a vertex-centered finite-volume discretization and an implicit point Gauss-Seidel time integration. The calculations were made for a steady flow and the computed results were compared with experimental data to validate the flow solver. An unsteady time-accurate computation of the generic fighter aircraft with external stores at transonic flight conditions showed that the external stores cause unsteady loading on the horizontal tail surface due to the mutual interference between their wake and the horizontal tail surface. It was shown that downward deflection of the trailing edge flap significantly reduces the undesirable interference effect.
Keywords
Unstructured Meshes; External Stores; Horizontal Tail; Aerodynamic Interference;
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