STUDY ON MECHANISM OF SEPARATION INTERFERENCE METHOD TO REDUCE AERODYNAMIC RESPONSE OF SQUARE PRISM

Abstract

The authors developed one method and tried to make clear its suppression mechanism. By using a plate that is placed to normal to the surface of the body at an optimum position, the separation flow from the leading edge is forced to touch the tip of the plate. The method was named by Y. KUBO, one of authors, as Separation Interference Method (SIM). The detail of this method and the reduction mechanism are described in the present paper, taking an instance of a square prism that vibrates. As a result, we showed that circulation vortex between 1^st separation point and 2^nd separation point was very important for SIM.