AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS CALCULATION ON SINGLE ROTOR BLADE USING FLOEFD, ANSYS FLUENT AND RC-VTOL

Abstract

The results of computational simulation of helicopter rotor's single blade flow, for which experimental (model test) data are published, are represented in this article. The calculations were made in the universal software package of CFD modeling FloEFD, which was based on the solution of averaged equations' system of Navier-Stocks, as well as in the program software RC-VTOL using the vortex method. The obtained results are compared with experimental data and modeling results in the program software ANSYS Fluent (license of TsAGI Nr. 501024). The work shows satisfactory, and in some cases good calculation data reconciliation getting with different techniques including experimental.

Keywords

• cfd
• vortex methods
• averaged navier-stokes equations
• the main rotor