EXPERIMENT 3 - SIMULATION OF FLOW OVER A SUPERSONIC

AIRFOIL
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Arjun Pillai
Aim: To simulate the flow over a cylinder and get the graphs and respective contours.
Procedure:
GEOMETRY:
1. Firstly, start doing the geometry in Ansys Fluid flow(fluent).Choose the XY axis and sketch a
double wedge of Angle 12° with the horizontal axis .And close the wedge with a vertical line,
which gives a closed sketch.

2. Convert the complete sketch into surface by using sketch to surface tool in create toolbar.Click
generate.Now mirror the surface body by taking YZ plane as the mirror plane.
3. Rotate the body with an angle of 5° by choosing the axis as XY plane.

4. Now select a new sketch and draw a rectangle with the given dimensions and change the sketch into
surface by using sketches to surface option.

5. Use Boolean option with subtract operation and select tool body as double wedge and target body as
the entire rectangular body. Click generate and proceed with the mesh.
 Final Geometry:

MESHING:
6. Open mesh in the workbench and click on mesh and specify the element size of 0.05 mm.
7. Right click on mesh and insert sizing, in the geometry choose the 4 edges of the supersonic airfoil
and specify the number of divisions as 250.
8. Now to get a finer meshed structure near the airfoil right click over the mesh and select insert
inflation. Specify geometry as the face and boundary as the 4 edges of supersonic airfoil. Maximum
layer to be 2 and growth rate of 1.2.

Final mesh structure:

 9. Create named selections by selecting the outer 4 edges and name it as farfield and name the edges
of airfoil as airfoil.
SETUP:
10. Now proceed with the setup, choose the k-epsilon viscous model.
11. In the materials edit the air properties by changing density to ideal gas and viscosity to sutherland.

12. In the boundary conditions choose airfoil and specify the shear condition as no slip. Operating
pressure as 0 Pa.
13. Choose farfield which is of type pressure far field and specify the pressure of 69000 Pa and Mach
Number as 2 and in thermal temperature as 254 K.
14. In methods change Turbulent kinetic energy and Turbulent Dissipation rate to Second order
upwind.

15. In the initialization choose standard initialization compute from farfield and initialize.
16. Run calculation of 55 iterations by choosing the following data quantities
● Static pressure
● Density
● Mach number
● Turbulent kinetic energy
● Turbulent dissipation energy
● Wall Yplus

17. Now the graph of residuals are plotted for the airfoil.
18. Now go to the results and get the contour of velocity by choosing variable as velocity with 100
contours.

19. Now get the contour for pressure by choosing variable as pressure and contour of 100.
VELOCITY CONTOUR:

PRESSURE CONTOUR:
GRAPHS:
RESIDUAL PLOT:

Result:
Finally the flow over supersonic airfoil is studied and got the respective contours,graphs.