Estudiante: Luis Carlos Reyes Castillo Matrícula: 1719107

UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN

Materia: Aerodinamca Grupo:00
Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica
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Fecha: _____
Ingeniería en Aeronáutica
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NACA 0018 ANSYS/ Fluent Simulation: The eight pressure measures will be at (sensor numbers):

We made the simulation of the airfoil, with the porpuse of
comparing the results of the real airfoil in the wind tunnel,
versus the data computed in the CFD Software "Ansys"
(using the tool "Fluid Flow/Fluent").
The parameters taken for this simulation are supposed to
be one of various parameters used in the test with the
wind tunnel. These are the following:
1. Leading Edge (1)
2. Trailing Edge (8)
3. At 5 cm from the leading edge in the upper and
lower surface of the airfoil (2 ,3)
4. At 10 cm from the leading edge in the upper and
lower surface of the airfoil (4 ,5)
5. At 15 cm from the leading edge in the upper and
lower surface of the airfoil (6, 7)

• Velocity of air: 20 m/s

• Outlet Pressure: Atmospheric pressure

• Span of the Airfoil: 0.28 m

• Chord of Airfoil: 0.20 m

• Angles of attack from -20 up to 20, with data for

every 5 degrees.
So we could make the NACA 0018 Sketch, we took the
coordinates from the website "www.airfoiltools.com", For the 0° Angle of Attack: We have the following
and plot them in aSolid Works Sketch. contours of Dynamic Pressure:

Right Away, we extruded the sketch 0.28 m, and saved it

in IGS format, so that Ansys could read it.In Ansys Fluid
Flow tool we import the airfoil body in the Geometry
section and make a enclosure to the body, in order to
have the flow field with the dimensions of the wind tunnel
test section.

And the Data acquired from the simulation is:

Sensor Pressure Dynamic (Pa) Static (Pa)

1 6.7 293.42
2 316.6 -134.14

3 315.622 -139.23

Subsequently, we made a Boolean operation to erase the 4 238.3 -88.33

body of the airfoil from the body of the enclosure. 5 239.82 -83.24
This was made for the body to be the air; and the airfoil 6 198.55 -27.254
space to be a "wall".
7 199.77 -25.35
In this analysis, we are going to identify and compare the 8 13.135 115.09
dynamic and static pressures at eight points, where the
real airfoil has the differential pressure sensors.
For 5° Angle of attack we have the following Contours: Having the following data:

Sensor Pressure Dynamic (Pa) Static (Pa)

1 88.53 218.0341
2 273.403 -194.88

3 262.45 -36.54
4 185.00 -103.53

5 281.43 -42.63
As we can see in comparison with the 0° of attack
simulation here we have more dynamic pressure in the 6 128.74 -48.72
upper surface reaching 441 Pa
7 233.22 -12.18
Having the following data: 8 4.41 85.25

Sensor Pressure Dynamic (Pa) Static (Pa)

For 15° Angle of attack we have the following Contours:
1 74.94 212.311
2 365.87 -164.02

3 312.97 -82.655
4 290.93 -87.74

5 277.71 -62.31
6 198.365 -26.71

7 216.00 -21.62
As we can see in comparison with the 10° of attack
8 4.41 74.99
simulation here we have more dynamic pressure in the
upper surface reaching 440 Pa but in a thinner area of the
airfoil. Having the following data:
For 10° Angle of attack we have the following Contours:
Sensor Pressure Dynamic (Pa) Static (Pa)

1 61.89 185.59
2 246.705 -233.13

3 248.105 21.09
4 141.09 -106.018

5 264.306 -23.76
6 97.094 -53.67
As we can see in comparison with the 5° of attack
7 255.50 -8.81
simulation here we have less dynamic pressure in the
upper surface reaching up to 402 Pa. 8 13.48 91.84
For 20° Angle of attack we have the following Contours: For the – 10° degrees angle of attack we have the
following contours:

As we can see in comparison with the 15° angle of attack

simulation here we have more dynamic pressure in the For the – 15° degrees angle of attack we have the
upper surface reaching 503 Pa but in a thinner area of the following contours:
airfoil. Having the following data:

Sensor Pressure Dynamic (Pa) Static (Pa)

1 246.52 212.311
2 221.5 -264.38

3 191.25 69.54
4 125.67 -115.11

5 251.55 7.95
6 85.74 -62.27 For the – 20° degrees angle of attack we have the
following contours:
7 262.12 5.6
8 5.34 104.89

For the negative angles of attack, we see that is the same

as if they were positives.

For the -5° angle of attack, we see the following contour:

The explanation of this behavior is that the airfoil is

symmetrical, so the values at the positive are the same as
in the negative ones, but with a switched number of
sensor.

When looking at the contours, we can find out that as we

reach the angle of attack where the stall is, the dynamic
pressure in the upper (+ angles of attack) surface gets
smaller for a bigger angle of attack, and so the lift
productionstarts to decrease.