Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics: Proceedings of the Conference Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 5–7 June 1989 (Lecture Notes in Engineering (54))

Current interest in a variety of low Reynolds number applications has focused attention on the design and evaluation of efficient airfoil sections at chord Reynolds numbers from about 100,000 to about 1,000,000. These applications include remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) at high altitudes, sailplanes, ultra-light man-carrying/man powered aircraft, mini-RPVs at low altitudes and wind turbines/propellers. The purpose of this conference was to bring together those researchers who have been active in areas closely related to this subject. All of the papers presented are research type papers. Main topics are: Airfoil Design and Analysis, Computational Studies, Stability and Transition, Laminar Separation Bubble, Steady and Unsteady Wind Tunnel Experiments and Flight Experiments. Front Matter....Pages N1-V XFOIL: An Analysis and Design System for Low Reynolds Number Airfoils....Pages 1-12 Prediction of Aerodynamic Performance of Airfoils in Low Reynolds Number Flows....Pages 13-23 A Fast Method for Computation of Airfoil Characteristics....Pages 24-38 Low Reynolds Number Airfoil Design and Wind Tunnel Testing at Princeton University....Pages 39-57 Study of Low-Reynolds Number Separated Flow Past the Wortmann FX 63-137 Airfoil....Pages 58-69 An Interactive Boundary-Layer Stability-Transition Approach for Low Reynolds-Number Airfoils....Pages 70-81 The Instability of Two-Dimensional Laminar Separation....Pages 82-92 Bursting in Separating Flow and in Transition....Pages 93-103 A Review of Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamic Research at the University of Glasgow....Pages 104-114 Experimental aerodynamic characteristics of the airfoils LA 5055 and DU 86-084/18 at low Reynolds numbers....Pages 115-130 Performance Measurements of an Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers....Pages 131-145 Correlation of Theory to Wind-Tunnel Data at Reynolds Numbers below 500,000....Pages 146-160 An Experimental Study of Low-Speed Single-Surface Airfoils with Faired Leading Edges....Pages 161-173 A Computationally Efficient Modelling of Laminar Separation Bubbles....Pages 174-188 A Comparison Between Boundary Layer Measurements in a Laminar Separation Bubble Flow and Linear Stability Theory Calculations....Pages 189-205 Unsteady Aerodynamics of Wortmann FX63-137 Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers....Pages 206-217 A Method to Determine the Performance of Low-Reynolds-Number Airfoils under Off-Design Unsteady Freestream Conditions....Pages 218-230 An Unsteady Model of Animal Hovering....Pages 231-245 Control of Low-Reynolds-Number Airfoils: A Review....Pages 246-270 The Low Frequency Oscillation in the Flow Over a NACA0012 Airfoil with an “Iced” Leading Edge....Pages 271-282 Detachment of Turbulent Boundary Layers With Varying Free-Stream Turbulence and Lower Reynolds Numbers....Pages 283-294 Wind-Tunnel Investigations of Wings with Serrated Sharp Trailing Edges....Pages 295-313 Low Reynolds Number Airfoil Design for Subsonic Compressible Flow....Pages 314-330 Computation of Viscous Unsteady Compressible Flow About Profiles....Pages 331-342 Compressible Navier-Stokes Solutions over Low Reynolds Number Airfoils....Pages 343-357 Shock/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction in Low Reynolds Number Supercritical Flows....Pages 358-368 Summary of Experimental Testing of a Transonic Low Reynolds Number Airfoil....Pages 369-380 The Design of a Low Reynolds Number RPV....Pages 381-393 Captive Carry Testing of Remotely Piloted Vehicles....Pages 394-406 Flight Testing Navy Low Reynolds Number (LRN) Unmanned Aircraft....Pages 407-417 Vortex Lock-on and Flow Control in Bluff Body Near-Wakes....Pages 418-432 Wake Studies on Yawed, Stranded Cables....Pages 433-446 Back Matter....Pages 449-451