Optimizing High-Lift Airfoils for Formula Student Vehicles Manipal Institute of Technology

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Karthikeyan, Prthik Nandhan, author.

Contributor:

Radhakrishnan, Jayakrishnan

Conference Name:

Automotive Technical Papers (2024-01-01 : Warrendale, Pennsylvania, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2024

Summary:

This document presents a study on the design and simulation of a high-lift airfoil intended for usage in multielement setups such as the wings present on open-wheel race cars. With the advancement of open-wheel race car aerodynamics, the design of existing high-lift airfoils has been altered to create a more useful and practical general profile. Adjoint optimization tools in CFD (ANSYS Fluent) were employed to increase the airfoil's performance beyond existing high-lift profiles (Selig S1223). Improvements of up to 20% with a CL of 2.4 were recorded. To further evaluate performance, the airfoil was made the basis of a full three-dimensional aerodynamics package design for an open-wheel Formula Student car. CFD simulations were carried out on the same and revealed performance characteristics of the airfoil in a more practical application. These CFD simulations were calibrated with experimental values from coast-down testing data with an accuracy of 8%

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Publisher Number:

2024-01-5059

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