Abstract
The expanding application in micro-air vehicles has encouraged many researchers to understand the unsteady flow around a flapping foil at a low Reynolds number. We numerically investigate an incompressible unsteady flow around a two-dimensional pitching airfoil (SD7003) at high reduced frequency (k ≥ 3) in the laminar regime. This study interrogates the effect of different unsteady parameters, namely, amplitude (A), reduced frequency (k), Reynolds number (Re), and asymmetry parameter (S) for pitching motion on the force coefficients. The inviscid theoretical model is utilized to calculate the lift coefficient for sinusoidal motion in the viscous regime, and a comparison is made with the numerical results. The theoretical analysis identifies the influence of the non-circulatory lift over circulatory lift at a high reduced frequency. Furthermore, the results indicate that the reduced frequency (k) and asymmetry parameter (S) have a significant impact on the instantaneous and time-averaged force coefficients as well as on the vortex structure in the wake. Finally, the fast Fourier transformation analysis is carried out over a simulated case with fixed amplitude and Reynolds number for distinct k and S values. The findings confirm that the dominant frequency in the flow (k*) has a direct correlation to the airfoil pitching frequency (k).
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