CFD Analysis on Airfoil at High Angles of Attack

Abstract — The present work describes a conceptual study of performance enhancing devices for an airfoil by using Computational Fluid Dynamics. Two simple passive devices are selected and examined for Lift improvement and for decrease in Drag. The motivation behind this project is to study these effective techniques to improve performance with fewer drawbacks then previously existing model. The effective position for the location of Dimples and Cylinder are found out. Among the two selected models, Dimple model shows good results compare to other. The CAD model is prepared in CATIA V5 R19, pre-processing is done in ANSYS ICEM CFD 14.0 and simulations are carried out in ANSYS FLUENT 14.0. The overall aim of the project is to improve airfoil performance at high angle-of-attack. The results justify the optimum position for placing Dimple and cylinder for enhancing airfoil performance. Keywords—Airfoil, Angle of attack, Coefficient of lift, dimple. I