• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.202-211
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• 2017

In this study, numerical simulations were performed using the ${\gamma}-Re_{\theta}$ transition model of KFLOW for the transitional flow over the KARI-11-180 airfoil. Numerical results of KFLOW were compared with experimental data and two other numerical results of XFoil and MSES. Fully turbulence model was predicted high skin friction drag than transition model because fully turbulence model could not solve the transitional flow. Numerical predictions using the ${\gamma}-Re_{\theta}$ model of KFLOW show a good agreement with experimental data and other numerical results. Present numerical results were confirmed the state of drag bucket due to dramatic changing of the transition location on the airfoil surface.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.259-267
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• 2017

Flow fields around a KARI-11-180 airfoil, SDM and transonic body are numerically simulated by using an unstructured meshes based compressible flow solver developed at KAIST. RANS equations are solved to analyse the flow fields and Roe's FDS method is adopted to evaluate convective fluxes. Turbulence effect of the flow fields is modeled by a SA model, SST model and ${\gamma}-{\widetilde{Re}}_{{\theta}t}$ model. It is found that smaller drag coefficients are predicted for the KARI-11-180 airfoil when a transition phenomenon is considered and small deviations exist between CFD and EFD results. For the SDM, flow separation is observed at a leading edge and calculated aerodynamic properties show similar tendencies to experimental results. A shock wave on main wings of the transonic body is successfully captured by the present flow solver at a Mach number 0.9. Estimated pressure profiles by means of the present CFD method also agree well with those of wind tunnel results.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.212-216
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• 2017

Aerodynamic analysis for the airfoil, KARI-11-180 having 18% thickness ratio, was performed with CFD techniques. The boundary layer grid was generated by projecting the wall grid normally and fine grid was placed behind the trailing edge to capture the wake accurately. The distance to the far boundary is 100 chords and the flow condition is same as the wind tunnel test condition. Transition SST and DES turbulence models were utilized for accurate prediction of the transiton point. The predicted lift is higher but the drag is predicted lower than the wind tunnel test. 3-dimensional results with airfoil models of which aspect ratio were 2 and 5 were compared with 2-dimensional results.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.194-201
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• 2017

The KARI-11-180 airfoil was selected as a model for EFD-CFD comparison workshop case 1. Wind tunnel test for this model was conducted in KARI low speed wind tunnel with $0.6m{\times}3.0m$ model for the Reynolds number up to 3.0E6. The model configuration and wind tunnel test results including Cl, Cd and Cp were released at the KSAS 2015 spring conference. The computational analysis results with KFLOW, FLUENT and STAR-CCM+ were present in the KSAS 2015 fall conference. These computational works were summarized in this paper and the comparison results with each others including the wind tunnel data were also summarized.