地面近傍で低速飛行するロータまわりの流れ場の数値計算

概要

論文の詳細を見る
It is known that when a rotor is flying over the ground at low speed, a ground vortex may appear in front of the rotor. The ground vortex, which can be formed by the interaction between the rotor downwash and the incoming flow in close proximity to the ground, will change the performance of the rotor. The flow environment becomes much more complex compared with that of O.G.E. flight. It is clearly necessary to investigate the basic physical phenomenon of the ground vortex and its effect on the aerodynamic characteristics of the rotor. Therefore, numerical study of the flowfields around a rotor in forward flight near the ground at low speed are carried out by solving the CFD code based on unsteady 3D compressible Euler equations with a moving grid system. In this paper, we present typical numerical results with respect to the formation of ground vortex, the induced velocity distribution on the rotor disc, and describe the effect of the rotor height and advanced ratio on the rotor thrust.
社団法人日本航空宇宙学会の論文
2002-04-05