APPLICATION OF A STRUCTURED AND AN UNSTRUCTURED CFDMETHOD
TO THE FUSELAGE AERODYNAMICS OF THE EC145
HELICOPTER. PREDICTION OF THE TIME AVERAGED INFLUENCE OF THE MAIN ROTOR. Alessandro DAlascio*, Klausdieter Pahlke and Frederic Le Chuiton *EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND, Ottobrunn, Deutschland e-mail: alessandro.dalascio@eurocopter.com, DLR, Braunschweig, Deutschland e-mail: Klausdieter.Pahlke@dlr.de e-mail: Frederic.Lechuiton@dlr.de Key words: EC145, CFD, aerodynamics, FLOWer, TAU, Actuator Disk. Abstract. The first part of the paper presents a comparison between CFD results and wind tunnel measurements on the isolated fuselage of the EC145 helicopter in level flight conditions at medium flight speed. Two RANS (Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes) codes have been used for this analysis: the multiblock structured code FLOWer and the unstructured code TAU. The second part of the paper shows the effect on local and global flow quantities of the Actuator Disk (AD) boundary condition implemented in the FLOWer code. For this purpose isolated fuselage results about the EC145 in high speed forward flight have been compared with the corresponding results on a fuselage plus AD configuration. Alessandro D`Alascio, Klausdieter Pahlke and Frederic Le Chuiton 2 Nomenclature CX - drag coefficient /(1/ 2 ) D v 2S = Z C - lift coefficient L /(1/ 2 v 2S) = D - drag L - lift M - free stream Mach number Re - Reynolds number = v
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