Control of flow over a backward facing step
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Authors
Woolman, Scott G.
Subjects
Backward Facing Step
Bluff-body Aerodynamics
Flow Tailoring
Blade Strike
Operating Envelopes
Bluff-body Aerodynamics
Flow Tailoring
Blade Strike
Operating Envelopes
Advisors
Healey, J. Val
Date of Issue
1990-09
Date
1990-09
Publisher
Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
Language
Abstract
The poor aerodynamic design of the superstructures of today's Navy ships create a highly turbulent airwake that can make shipboard helicopter operations quite hazardous. This study is part of a longer-term project to tailor airflow over a ship's helicopter deck in order to improve the poor quality of the airflow. This airflow is thought to be largely responsible for several costly blade strike mishaps involving H-46 helicopters during start-up and shut down. Numerous computer simulations were conducted using the Phoenics Computational Fluid Dynamics code to simulate airflow over a backward-facing- step. The latter represents a simple 2-d model of flow behind a typical hangar flight deck combination. In each run a deflector of different size, orientation or porosity was placed in a specific location in an attempt to reduce the size of the recirculation zone, the velocities and the turbulence levels. Of the studies involved, a vertical deflector offset downstream with its lower edge at the top of the step produced the best overall results.
Type
Thesis
Description
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Department
Aeronautics and Astronautics
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
x, 81 p.
Citation
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.