Research Advisor
Finaish, Fathi
Advisor's Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Funding Source
The author would like to thank the OURE program for its support and funding.
Meeting Name
1st Annual UMR Undergraduate Research Symposium (1991: Apr., Rolla, MO)
Abstract
Computer programs were developed to visualize irrotational flow over bluff bodies (circular cylinders and half-bodies) and streamlined bodies (elliptical cylinders and airfoils). The method of superposition of flows was used, with stream functions or complex velocity potentials for fundamental flows being added to obtain the flows over the bodies. For the flow over the circular cylinders, half-bodies and elliptical cylinders, the stream function was calculated directly. The flow over the airfoil was obtained by Joukowski mapping of the imaginary part of the complex velocity potential for flow over a circular cylinder.
The programs developed will be valuable learning tools for undergraduate aerospace engineering students. The students will be helped to understand the equations used to describe the flows by studying the effects of varying various parameters. Future work on these programs may include modifying them to calculate and plot the velocity and pressure distributions, and to calculate the aerodynamic forces on the bodies.
Research Category
Improving Technology Through Computer Modeling
Document Type
Presentation
Award
2nd Place
Presentation Date
April 1991
Recommended Citation
Okong' o, Nora, "Computer Visualization of Irrotational Flow Over Bluff and Streamlined Bodies" (1991). Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE). 119.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/oure/119
