Experimental and numerical simulation of a moving carrier (FX63-137) through an air tunnel

2nd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in Research and Industry

力学;计算机科学;工业技术

Shibani, W.M.^1 ; Zulkafli, M.F.^1 ; Basuno, B.^1 ; Ghafir, M. F. Abdul^1 ; Subari, Z.^1

Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Parit Raja, Johor

86400, Malaysia^1

关键词: Airfoil section;    Carrier movement;    Comparison result;    Constant temperature;    Experimental approaches;    FLUENT software;    Internal flows;    Rectangular wings;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/243/1/012016/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/243/1/012016

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This study investigated the movement of a carrier through an air tunnel using numerical simulation and experimental approach conducted in UTHM laboratories. The carrier was designed to have a particular trajectory moves along the air tunnel. The body of the main carrier has a shape of cube and rectangular wing of aspect ratio 2 is set in the middle of the body which has a shape of airfoil FX63-137 as its airfoil section. Experimental result of the carrier movement was investigated and compared with the simulation result obtained by Fluent's software. The experiment was conducted using a flow speed of 19.59 m/s at the inlet station. In the simulation, the flow is considered as an internal flow and has a constant temperature at the entry station. The pressure ratio between the inlet and outlet of the air tunnel is 235 N/m2. In addition, that the flow is considered as turbulent flow and the present study used k -as its turbulence modelling in the numerical simulation. Comparison result between experiment and Fluent software in term of its trajectory and the speed of the carrier movement are found in a good agreement.