Interference mechanism of trailing edge flap shedding vortices with rotor wake and aerodynamic characteristics

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作者
Liu, Yang [1 ]
Shi, Yongjie [1 ]
Aziz, Aqib [1 ]
Xu, Guohua [1 ]
Gao, Haifeng [1 ]
机构
[1] Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Natl Key Lab Helicopter Aeromech, Nanjing 210016, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
CFD; Rotor; Aerodynamic; Trailing edge flap; Vortex shedding; BVI; VORTEX INTERACTION NOISE; HELICOPTER ROTOR; VIBRATION REDUCTION;
D O I
10.1016/j.cja.2024.07.036
中图分类号
V [航空、航天];
学科分类号
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
A robust Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) based solver is established to pre- dict the complex unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of the Active Flap Control (AFC) rotor. The complex motion with multiple degrees of freedom of the Trailing Edge Flap (TEF) is analyzed by employing an inverse nested overset grid method. Simulation of non-rotational and rotational modes of blade motion are carried out to investigate the formation and development of TEF shed- ding vortex with high-frequency deflection of TEF. Moreover, the mechanism of TEF deflection interference with blade tip vortex and overall rotor aerodynamics is also explored. In non- rotational mode, two bundles of vortices form at the gap ends of TEF and the main blade and merge into a single TEF vortex. Dynamic deflection of the TEF significantly interferes with the blade tip vortex. The position of the blade tip vortex consistently changes, and its frequency is directly related to the frequency of TEF deflection. In rotational mode, the tip vortex forms a helical structure. The end vortices at the gap sides co-swirl and subsequently merge into the concentrated beam of tip vortices, causing fluctuations in the vorticity and axial position of the tip vortex under the rotor. This research concludes with the investigation on suppression of Blade Vortex Interaction (BVI), showing an increase in miss distance and reduction in the vorticity of tip vortex through TEF phase control at a particular control frequency. Through this mechanism, a designed TEF deflection law increases the miss distance by 34.7% and reduces vorticity by 11.9% at the target position, demonstrating the effectiveness of AFC in mitigating BVI. (c) 2024 Production and hosting by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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