The present work had as its main aim to carry out a study of the high lift of an unconventional aircraft of the '40s, the Vought V-173 Flying Pancake. To obtain this result the Authors used the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software SolidWorks Flow Simulation. In particular, the CL-αand CD-αcurves have been interpolated from the points obtained from the simulations for different configurations of the V173 aircraft CAD model. In a first phase the aerodynamics of the aircraft was evaluated 'clean' without the presence of the propellers was analysed. In a second phase, the influence of the two large propellers was taken into account. The effect of the propeller was clearly shown especially at high AOA. These results were obtained from the direct comparison of the Lift-AOA and Drag-AOA curves for the unpowered and the powered condition. The CFD results confirmed the impression of high controllability of the powered aircraft up to AOA of 50°. This behavior with the extremely smooth stall gave the impression of an aircraft impossible to stall or to spin. © 2006-2015 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN).
CFD analysis of the Zimmerman's V173 stol aircraft / Piancastelli, L.; Gatti, A.; Frizziero, L.; Ragazzi, L.; Cremonini, M.. - In: JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES. - ISSN 1819-6608. - ELETTRONICO. - 10:18(2015), pp. 8063-8070.
CFD analysis of the Zimmerman's V173 stol aircraft
PIANCASTELLI, LUCA;FRIZZIERO, LEONARDO;
2015
Abstract
The present work had as its main aim to carry out a study of the high lift of an unconventional aircraft of the '40s, the Vought V-173 Flying Pancake. To obtain this result the Authors used the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software SolidWorks Flow Simulation. In particular, the CL-αand CD-αcurves have been interpolated from the points obtained from the simulations for different configurations of the V173 aircraft CAD model. In a first phase the aerodynamics of the aircraft was evaluated 'clean' without the presence of the propellers was analysed. In a second phase, the influence of the two large propellers was taken into account. The effect of the propeller was clearly shown especially at high AOA. These results were obtained from the direct comparison of the Lift-AOA and Drag-AOA curves for the unpowered and the powered condition. The CFD results confirmed the impression of high controllability of the powered aircraft up to AOA of 50°. This behavior with the extremely smooth stall gave the impression of an aircraft impossible to stall or to spin. © 2006-2015 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
