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Finite difference solutions of compressible viscous fluid flows over pitching bluff bodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

C. M. Leech  and
D. Chan
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Box-shaped containers when carried by cable harness from helicopters are known to have complicated motions, in many degrees of freedom and with varying degrees of stability. The resulting motions are caused by the complex aerodynamics of, for example, unsteady movements of the containers. These motions create, and are in turn sustained by, complex aerodynamic flows and forces.

Steady forward motion of the container results in separation bubbles initiating from the container leading edges. Sometimes the separating stream surfaces will re-attach to the container surface at some station downstream from the leading edges. In other cases, no reattachment occurs and the container is considered to be in the ‘wake’ of the forward facing surface.

Unsteadiness in the fluid motion, when induced most importantly, for example, by the pitching of the container, can significantly alter the criteria governing the formation of the separating stream surface and its re-attachment.

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Technical note
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 81 , Issue 801 , September 1977 , pp. 415 - 421
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1977 

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Footnotes

*

Lecturer, UMIST, England. (Formerly Research Associate, Bristol University, England).

†

Formerly Research Assistant, Bristol University, England

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