Determination of Aerodynamic Characteristics of NACA 0012 Using ANSYS for High Subsonic Flow

Abstract

Aerodynamic characteristics play a very important role in determining the forces acting on the aerofoil sections and thereby are very important for airplane performance. Determination of these characteristics can be done in two ways - experimental and simulation. The data obtained from experiments and simulation complement each other in the current era. The presented work deals with the determination of aerodynamic characteristics such as lift coefficient (Cl) and drag coefficient (Cd) of a NACA 0012 aerofoil at high subsonic speed for inviscid flow condition by performing numerical simulation using commercial software ANSYS.