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
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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