naca0015 based on - Airplane

AE303 – Aerospace Structures Project

Additional report - analysis using AVL

1.1.2023
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Why choosing AVL:

AVL is a program for the aerodynamic and flight-dynamic analysis of rigid aircraft of arbitrary
configuration. It employs an extended vortex lattice model for the lifting surfaces, together with a
slender-body model for fuselages and nacelles. General nonlinear flight states can be specified.
The flight dynamic analysis combines a full linearization of the aerodynamic model about any
flight state, together with specified mass properties.

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Load distribution

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AoA - 4 degree

Vortex Lattice Output -- Total Forces

Configuration: naca0015-Airplane
# Surfaces = 2
# Strips = 50
# Vortices = 500
Sref = 0.25000 Cref = 0.25000 Bref = 1.0000
Xref = 0.0000 Yref = 0.0000 Zref = 0.0000

Standard axis orientation, X fwd, Z down

Run case: 4 deg.

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Alpha = 4.00000 CLtot = 0.65270 CDtot = 0.02572

CDvis = 0.01714 CDind = 0.0085811

CLff = 0.65330 CDff = 0.0085655 | Trefftz

CYff = 0.00000 e= 3.9652 | Plane

alpha beta

z' force CL CLa = 9.317119 CLb = 0.000000

y force CY CYa = 0.000000 CYb = -0.017137

x' mom. Cl' Cla = 0.000000 Clb = -0.097522

y mom. Cm Cma = -20.923223 Cmb = -0.000000

z' mom. Cn' Cna = 0.000000 Cnb = 0.016104

roll rate p' pitch rate q' yaw rate r'

z' force CL CLp = 0.000001 CLq = 52.158577 CLr = -0.000000

y force CY CYp = 0.173194 CYq = 0.000000 CYr = 0.007256

x' mom. Cl' Clp = -3.987934 Clq = 0.000001 Clr = 0.741467

y mom. Cm Cmp = -0.000001 Cmq =-118.553146 Cmr = 0.000000

z' mom. Cn' Cnp = -0.220044 Cnq = 0.000001 Cnr = -0.051310

Neutral point Xnp = 0.561419

Clb Cnr / Clr Cnb = 0.419061 ( > 1 if spirally stable )

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AoA - 8 degree

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AoA - 15 degree

Note that the ideal angle of attack (α) is at ±7

We note that the cl diagram with alpha is a linear function within the range of 0~±8

And that cd changes linearly within the alpha range from ±3 to ±10

𝐶𝑀 is at its smallest value at the optimum angle of attack