Design of upswept aft-body of civil transport based on CFD

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Abstract

Study on flow field of civil transport upswept aft-body is of much value as the drag coursed by aft-body contributes to about 10 percent of total drag. Currently researches were mostly concerned on clean fuselage, while little emphasis was put on fuse-tail configuration. With interests to exploiting the effect of design parameters on fuselage with empennage, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to simulate the flow field of fuselages with different parameters. Based on studying the aerodynamic performance of clean fuselages, emphases were placed on fuse-tail configurations. Although fairing at root of stabilizer is good for reducing pressure drag, influence on friction drag should be taken into consideration when determine the design of fairing. With stabilizer mounted, drag of axial symmetric fuselage is not the minimum, while the one with some angle upswept is drag optimal.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMaterials Design, Processing and Applications
Pages2722-2725
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event4th International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering, ICMSE 2013 - Dalian, China
Duration: 30 Mar 201331 Mar 2013

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume690 693
ISSN (Print)1022-6680

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering, ICMSE 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period30/03/1331/03/13

Keywords

  • Aerodynamic performance
  • Design parameter
  • Design principle
  • Fuse-tail configuration
  • Upswept aft-body

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