The effect of nonsinusoidal motion on plunging airfoil aerodynamics for thrust generation was numerically studied with a 2-D NACA0012 airfoil at Re=10
4
. A nonsinusoidal parameter K was employed to realize various nonsinusoidal motions. The results reveal that nonsinusoidal motion has a noticeable effect on the aerodynamic performance
as it affects the instantaneous force coefficients
maximum thrust coefficients
and flow structures. An increase in K results in better thrust generation performance at a fixed St
especially for K>0. It is also found that the nonsinusoidal motions have notable effect on the wake pattern
and a larger K induces stronger reverse von Karman vortex in the wake
which in turn leads to the thrust generation enhancement. However
the propulsive efficiency decreases with the increasing K because of the larger scale of lead
ing edge separation caused by the larger K.
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