High-Lift Mechanism of a Bionic Slat
To avoid broadband noise from a slat cove, the deployed slat contour is usually modified by filling cove, but the design is sensitive to aerodynamic performance. In the paper, a bionic slat without a cove is built on the basis of a bionic airfoil (i.e. stowed bionic multi-element airfoil), which is...
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Published in | Applied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 461; no. Advances in Bionic Engineering; pp. 220 - 229 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Zurich
Trans Tech Publications Ltd
01.11.2013
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Summary: | To avoid broadband noise from a slat cove, the deployed slat contour is usually modified by filling cove, but the design is sensitive to aerodynamic performance. In the paper, a bionic slat without a cove is built on the basis of a bionic airfoil (i.e. stowed bionic multi-element airfoil), which is extracted from a long-eared owl wing. The quasi-two-dimensional models with a deployed bionic slat and a stowed bionic slat are manufactured by rapid manufacturing and prototyping system, respectively, and measured in a low-turbulence wind tunnel. The results are used to characterize high-lift effect: the lift coefficients of the model with a stowed slat are larger at less than 4°angle of attack, but the model with a deployed slat has the larger lift coefficients at greater than 4°angle of attack. Furthermore, the deployed bionic slat can increase stall angle and maximum lift coefficient, but also delay the decline of the lift coefficient curve slope meaning that the leading-edge separation is postponed within a certain range of angle of attack. At the same time, the flow field around the models is visualized by smoke wire method. The leading-edge separation of the model with a stowed slat is shown at low Reynolds number and angle of attack. However, the finding does not occur in the flow field of the model with a deployed slat at the same conditions, probably because the gap between the bionic slat and the main wing results in favorable pressure gradient, the deployed bionic slat decreases the peak of adverse pressure gradient by increasing the chord of the bionic multi-element model, and the bionic slat wake excites transition to the boundary layer on upper surface of the main wing. This superiority may be used as reference in the design of the leading-edge slat without a cove. |
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Bibliography: | Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 4th International Conference of Bionic Engineering (ICBE’13), August 13–16, 2013, Nanjing, China ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISBN: | 3037859326 9783037859322 |
ISSN: | 1660-9336 1662-7482 1662-7482 |
DOI: | 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.461.220 |