Numerical Simulation of NACA 2415 Airfoil at Different Low Reynolds Numbers and Angles of Attack

Abstract

This project simulates NACA2415 airfoil on ANSYS Workbench and ANSYS FLUENT at low Reynolds numbers at different angles of attack. This is a 2-D simulation andSpalart-Allmaras is the preferred turbulentmodel solver for this process, it yielded more results closer to experimental results when compared against K-epsilon and other turbulent models.Contours of Pressure and Velocity are presented in this paper with their inferences discussed while Plots of Coefficient of Pressure (CP) about the chord lengths along the airfoil and Coefficient of Lift (CL) are plotted to compare the CFD and the experimental results. Effect of Reynolds number and Angle of Attack is thus studied and investigated.