Grado en Ingeniería Aeroespacial en Aeronavegación/

Degree in Aerospace Engineering in Air Navigation

Aerodinámica/Aerodynamics
LabIII, L3202, Fuenlabrada

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS WITH ANSYS

FLUENT 14.5

CASE 3

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW OVER AN AIRFOIL (TUTORIAL ANSYS 14.5)

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 1. Introduction

Objective: to compute the turbulent flow past a transonic airfoil at a nonzero angle of attack.
You will use the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model.

2. Problem Specification

Figure 1. Problem Specification

3. Geometry and Mesh

Import the geometry and the mesh from the file “airfoil.msh” that can be downloaded from
“Campus Virtual”.

After that, you need to reorder the mesh (MESHREORDERDOMAIN) in order to reduce the
bandwidth of the cell neighbor number and to speed up the computations.

4. Preparing the problem

Figure 2. General settings and Model

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 Figure 3. Materials

Values

Figure 4. Boundary conditions (I)

Figure 5. Boundary conditions (II)

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 Figure 6. Solutions (I)

Figure 7. Solutions (II)

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 Figure 8. Solutions (III)

5. Calculation

Enter 50 for Number of Iterations.

Click Calculate.

By performing some iterations before setting up the force monitors, you will avoid large initial
transients in the monitor plots. This will reduce the axes range and make it easier to judge the
convergence.

6. Define a force monitor to plot and write the drag coefficient , lift coefficient and the
momentum for the walls of the airfoil.

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 Figure 8. Monitors and contour plot of pressure

Questions:

1. Make a brief description of the Spalart Allmaras model and the Sutherland definition of
the viscosity.
2. In this case we need to establish the temperature in the pressure-far-field-1. This is the
first time in all the cases that we have done. Why we need to do it in this case?
3. Obtain the Contour Plot of Mach Number, x-component of velocity and pressure.
Describe the physical processes observed.
4. Repeat but using a Ma=0.5. Explain the differences.

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