Date of Award
Summer 1978
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Program/Concentration
Mechanical Engineering
Committee Director
John Kuhlman
Committee Member
Edward C. Polhamus
Call Number for Print
Special Collections; LD4331.E56A74
Abstract
A method. has been implemented to calculate the potential flow pressure distribution over noncircular cylinders at various flow incidence angles. The inviscid, solution has been obtained by replacing the surface of a noncircular cylinder with a vortex sheet. The surface has been approximated by a number of flat panels. Each vortex panel has been assumed to have a constant vorticity, and the condition of no-circulation applied.. Solutions yield the local tangential velocity and pressure coefficient at each point.
The accuracy of the method has 'been established through comparison of the predicted results with existing exact theoretical results.
Comparisons of the predicted inviscid results with experimental data for square and triangular-cross section cylinders with rounded corners have also been included. Details of the computer program developed to implement this method are described in Appendices A and B, which include input, and output examples for a sample problem.
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DOI
10.25777/t02y-c170
Recommended Citation
Ashley, Sophia K..
"Inviscid Two-Dimensional Vortex-Panel Method for Calculating the Pressure Distribution Over Noncircular Cylinders at Various Flow Incidence Angles"
(1978). Thesis, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/t02y-c170
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/mae_etds/413