Numerical simulation of two streamwise supersonic vortices interaction

Abstract

In this paper we present a numerical study of two streamwise supersonic vortices interaction. A pair of vortices was generated by two coaxial straight wings with sharp leading and trailing edges. Mach number of incoming flow was M∞ = 3. Two configurations are considered: a pair of co-rotating vortices and a pair of counter-rotating vortices. In the case of counter-rotating vortices the wings attack angle was 10 degrees. In the case of co-rotating vortices the attack angle of one of the wings was 10 degrees, the attack angle of other one was -10 degrees. Numerical data were obtained in the domain of 10 wing chords downstream from a wings axis by a computational model based on the URANS equations with SA turbulence model. Numerical simulations were performed on the hybrid supercomputing system K-60 at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS using the developed software package ARES for 3D turbulent flows modeling on high performance computing systems. This work is a continuation of the series of author’s works dedicated to the supersonic wingtip vortices.