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Numerical Investigation of the Flutter Behaviour of a Laminar Supercritical Airfoil

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Nowadays laminar airfoils are considered in aircraft design in order to achieve laminar flow, thereby reducing the drag. Laminar flow should however not lead to a performance reduction of the aircraft. One of the constraints of the flight envelope is the flutter boundary. The influence of (partly) laminar flow on this boundary is however still unclear. Therefore numerical simulations have been performed. These show that the flutter behaviour of a laminar supercritical airfoil is more critical at transonic conditions in case of (partly) laminar flow.

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Acknowledgments

The results presented in this paper have been generated during the first author’s master thesis [15] and were also was part of the DLR-project “IGREEN” [16].

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  1. German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aeroelasticity, Göttingen, Germany

    A. C. L. M. van Rooij & W. Wegner

  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

    A. C. L. M. van Rooij

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  1. Institut für Aerodynamik und Strömungstechnik, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Göttingen, Germany

    Andreas Dillmann

  2. Airbus Deutschland, Bremen, Germany

    Gerd Heller

  3. Institut für Aerodynamik und Gasdynamik, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Ewald Krämer

  4. Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Aerodynamik und Strömungstechnik, Göttingen, Germany

    Hans-Peter Kreplin

  5. Institut für Luft- und Raumfahrt, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Nitsche

  6. Institut für Aerodynamik und Gasdynamik, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Ulrich Rist

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van Rooij, A.C.L.M., Wegner, W. (2014). Numerical Investigation of the Flutter Behaviour of a Laminar Supercritical Airfoil. In: Dillmann, A., Heller, G., Krämer, E., Kreplin, HP., Nitsche, W., Rist, U. (eds) New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics IX. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, vol 124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03158-3_4

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