Abstract
To understand the flow characteristics around a wing in viscoelastic fluids, velocity vector field of 0.50 wt% polyacrylamide (PAA) solution around a wing was obtained with particle image velocimetry (PIV). According to the velocity vector data, flow separation was vanished in lateral part of wing surface in PAA solution. To identify the mechanism of this phenomenon, streamline, shear rate, and shear strain was derived. And then first normal stress difference and shear stress were estimated by means of Kelvin-Voigt model and Lodge and Meissner formula. According to normal stress difference distribution, on the lateral part of upper surface of wing, first normal stress difference (Ni) was enhanced. First normal stress difference implies the stress balance between stress along streamline direction and stress along normal direction of streamline. Therefore, it fulfills important role in deformation such as stretching and compression. In case of positive Ni, flow element is stretched along streamline direction and compressed along normal direction of streamline. And rebound pressure against the deformation works in opposite direction of this deformation; compressing pressure in streamline direction and stretching pressure in normal direction of streamline. Thereby in this case, flow is suppressed to upper surface of wing by stretching pressure in vertical direction of streamline, which results in vanishment of flow separation.
