Wake Analysis for an Airplane Wing-Fuselage Model by Using CFD

Abstract

For the aerodynamic design of aircraft, CFD has made a remarkable progress to provide lift, drag and surface pressure distribution collaborating with wing tunnel experiment. However, not much information is known about the flow phenomena in wakes of airplanes and wings. In the article, we concentrate on wake flow analysis as a post work of computations and experiments done for APC-I workshops. Through the analysis, we have found that wing tip vortices and boundary layers of a wing affect velocity distribution on a wake, while only the tip vortices do pressure. The precise prediction of wake physics deeply depends on grid resolution quality in subspaces such as cross-sectional planes in a wake away from an airplane surface, for both of experiment and computation.