Numerical simulation of airfoil vibrations induced by turbulent flow

• ID: 2688, RIV: 10291259
• ISSN: 1815-2406, ISBN: not specified
• source: Communications in Computational Physics
• keywords: Numerical simulation; airfoi vibrations; turbulent flow; turbulence models; Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations; Spalart-Allmaras model; k-omega model; stabilized finite element method
• authors: Miloslav Feistauer, Jaromír Horáček, Petr Sváček
• authors from KNM: Feistauer Miloslav

Abstract

The subject of the paper is the numerical simulation of the interaction of two-dimensional incompressible viscous flow and a vibrating airfoil with large amplitudes. The airfoil with three degrees of freedom performs rotation around an elastic axis, oscillations in the vertical direction and rotation of a flap. The numerical simulation consists of the finite element solution of the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations combined with Spalart-Allmaras or $k-\omega$ turbulence models, coupled with a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations describing the airfoil motion with consideration of large amplitudes. The time-dependent computational domain and approximation on a moving grid are treated by the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation of the flow equations. Due to large values of the involved Reynolds numbers an application of a suitable stabilization of the finite element discretization is employed. The developed method is used for the computation of flow-induced oscillations of the airfoil near the flutter instability, when the displacements of the airfoil are large, up to 40 degrees in rotation. The paper contains the comparison of the numerical results obtained by both turbulence models.