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Lift coefficients in BAR airfoil files
While debugging some differences in a new method of calculating default unsteady airfoil coefficients, I noticed some unusual characteristics in the lift coefficients in several of the aerodyn/BAR_Baseline files (1-6).
./modules/aerodyn/BAR_Baseline/Airfoils/BAR0_AeroDyn15_Polar_01.dat ./modules/aerodyn/BAR_Baseline/Airfoils/BAR0_AeroDyn15_Polar_02.dat ./modules/aerodyn/BAR_Baseline/Airfoils/BAR0_AeroDyn15_Polar_03.dat ./modules/aerodyn/BAR_Baseline/Airfoils/BAR0_AeroDyn15_Polar_04.dat ./modules/aerodyn/BAR_Baseline/Airfoils/BAR0_AeroDyn15_Polar_05.dat ./modules/aerodyn/BAR_Baseline/Airfoils/BAR0_AeroDyn15_Polar_06.dat
I am not sure what those local minima just below alpha=0 are:
Other aerodyn/BAR_Baseline airfoils look more normal. For example
./modules/aerodyn/BAR_Baseline/Airfoils/BAR0_AeroDyn15_Polar_07.dat ./modules/aerodyn/BAR_Baseline/Airfoils/BAR0_AeroDyn15_Polar_08.dat ./modules/aerodyn/BAR_Baseline/Airfoils/BAR0_AeroDyn15_Polar_09.dat
Here are values for 7-9:
If those local minima are expected, we will have to look into some different methods for computing values for c_lalpha
and c_nalpha
. Also, I'm not sure how the UA models will handle it.
Let me know what you think.