COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS BASED ON THE FLUID FLOW SEPARATION POINT ON THE UPPER SIDE OF THE NACA 0015 AIRFOIL WITH THE COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION

James Julian(1*), Waridho Iskandar(2), Fitri Wahyuni(3), Ferdyanto Ferdyanto(4)

(1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta
(2) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta
(3) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta
(4) Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract

A new method that is more practical, efficient and applicable is proposed to track the position of fluid flow separation on the upper side of NACA 0015. The proposed method is the coefficient of friction curve (Cf) method on the airfoil's upper side. The approach used is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach. The governing equation used is the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equation.  is the turbulence model implemented in this study. The research is conducted on the low Reynolds number category. The low Reynolds number is in the range of values from 104 to 3Í105. Cf can predict the location of fluid flow separation more practically, efficiently, and applicable than the fluid flow velocity profile method. Flow separation begins to form at  =8° at position x/c=0.8. The location of the fluid flow separation continues to move closer to the leading edge as the  airfoil increases. Through the Cf curve, the location of the fluid flow separation is when the Cf curve experiences a sudden decrease and approaches the x-axis. If the separation points are described in the form of velocity profiles and fluid flow velocity contours, it will form an extreme decrease.

Keywords

airfoil; coefficient of friction; computational; NACA 0015; separation point; track

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DOI: 10.23917/mesin.v23i2.18217

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