Improvements on computations of high speed propeller unsteady aerodynamics

This paper presents the application of the CANARI flow solver to the computation of unsteady effects in the aerodynamic interaction of a high speed propeller with the aircraft. The method is first validated on the APIAN isolated propeller test case by comparison with experiment at M = 0.7. The method is then applied to the time accurate 3D Euler computation of a generic transport aircraft at M = 0.68. Analysis of the results shows significant unsteady effects both on the propeller forces and on the wing aerodynamic flows, by comparison with steady computations. (C) 2003 Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.