Abstract

In our numerical simulation the heavy rain effects have been studied on the aerodynamic performance of 2D cambered NACA 23015 airfoil landing configuration with 20o. We have used preprocessing software gridgen for creation of the landing configuration of the airfoil and then creating mesh around it. Fluent is used to solve the conservation equations. We have used discrete phase modeling (DPM) in Fluent to simulate the rain phenomenon in continuous phase flow by using two phase flow approach. In our study the coupling between the discrete and the continuous phase has been activated. In discrete phase model (DPM), we used the wall film model for the interaction of the continuous and discrete phase. The airfoil landing configuration exhibited significant decrease in lift and increase in drag for a given lift conditions in simulated rain. Post processing software like MATLAB, Tec plot and Origin are used to see the effects of the heavy rain and then results obtained are compared with the experimental results. Our numerical results in most of cases show similar trends with the experiments.

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