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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2021 Meeting


Section: Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics


Title:
Incompressible flow around a high aspect ratio arched wing in ground effect


Authors:
Adrian STOICA (1)


Affiliation:
1) University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, P. O. Box MG-11, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania


E-mail
adrian.stoica@unibuc.ro


Keywords:
ground effect, non-planar wing, lifting line theory


Abstract:
By the aid of the method of images, in the frame of the Prandtl's lifting line theory, a singular integro-differential equation is obtained. For this equation an efficient numerical method is proposed. The numerical simulations confirm a reduction in induced drag caused by ground effect.


References:

[1] L. Demasi, A. Dipace, G. Monegato, R. Cavallaro, Invariant formulation for the minimum induced drag conditions of nonplanar wing systems, AIAA Journal, 52, 2223-2240 (2014)

[2] S. Prossdorf, B. Silbermann, Numerical analysis for integral and related operator equations, Akademie Verlag 1990

[3] S. Ando, An Idealised Ground Effect Wing, The Aeronautical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 1, 1966