CFD estimation of a resistance coefficient for an egg-shaped geometric dome

In aquaculture, new production technologies are under development and testing. One promising type of technology is the closed floating cage. Egget® is one of these newly developed technologies, which is egg-shaped and vertically floating. One of the challenges is to determine hydrodynamic loads. Therefore, this study focuses on estimating the resistance and the resistance coefficient for steady flow with various velocities and Reynolds numbers on a scaled model. It includes simulations using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for two depths and experiments in the MarinLab at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). As the cage is partially submerged, the simulations are performed using the Volume of Fluid (VOF) technique for modeling free surface flow. The comparison of experimental and simulation results show good agreement.publishedVersio

Status of the KTH-NASA Wind-Tunnel Test for Acquisition of Transonic Nonlinear Aeroelastic Data

This paper presents a status report on the collaboration between the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden and the NASA Langley Research Center regarding the design, fabrication, modeling, and testing of a full-span lighter configuration in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel (TDT). The goal of the test is to acquire transonic limit-cycle- oscillation (LCO) data, including accelerations, strains, and unsteady pressures. Finite element models (FEMs) and aerodynamic models are presented and discussed along with results obtained to date

Aerodynamics and lateral control of tailless aircraft

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