Influences of Geometric Parameters on the Propulsion Performance of Three-Dimensional Bionic Motion Wings[J]. 2017, 51(9): 131-137.
DOI:
Influences of Geometric Parameters on the Propulsion Performance of Three-Dimensional Bionic Motion Wings[J]. 2017, 51(9): 131-137.DOI: 10.7652/xjtuxb201709019.
Influences of Geometric Parameters on the Propulsion Performance of Three-Dimensional Bionic Motion Wings
To study the influence of geometric parameters on the propulsion performance of three-dimensional bionic motion wings
a general large-scale solver based on IB-LBM algorithm for Tianhe-II supercomputer is developed. To implement this process
the immersed boundary method is used to construct a force function on the surface of the wing. Then the force function is spread to the neighbor fluid mesh with interpolation function. The lattice Boltzmann method is used to perform fluid computation and update the velocity field. Four different wings
i.e.
ellipsoidal wing
plate wing
NACA0012 wing and cuboid wing
are investigated to explore how the geometric shapes of the wings influence the thrust coefficient and vortex structure. The numerical results show that the vortex induced by the ellipsoidal wing is fully structured and close to the surface of the wing
so its propulsion performance is best. The vortex structures of NACA0012 wing and plate wing are similar
and hence have similar propulsion performance. The vortex structure of cuboid wing
however
is small and far from the wing surface
leading to a worst propulsion performance. So
in design of bionic airplane
the cuboid wing should be excluded. Although the performance of ellipsoidal wing is best
it requires a high-quality mass distribution in connection parts
so the plate wing would be a proper choice as a result of tradeoff.
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