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

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