Introduction To Fluent Aero Package

Use of Fluent Aero package to solver ONERA M6 wing in fully automatic fashion

What you'll learn

Learning about the Aero mode in Fluent for running simulations related to aerodynamics flow analysis

To solve ONERA M6 wing

How to setup problem in aero mode by providing flow and geometric parameters

Solving simulations in aero mode

Getting CFD results for validation

Requirements

Basic understanding of CFD and aerodynamics

Fluent 2022 R1 installed on your computer with premium features

i3 processor (atleast) and 16 GB RAM

Description

In this course we will solve ONERA M6 wing using Fluent Aero. Fluent Aero is specialized software to solve aerodynamic flows. It provides the fully automatic to run different angle of attacks and range of Mach number for particular aerodynamic body without any user input.  You just need to provide range of Mach number and angle of attack along with reference area, reference length, freestream pressure and temperature. Rest of the things will done by Aero features. Moreover the solver settings are optimized and set for particular flow regime which is also decided by solver by given input parameters. Fluent Aero uses the best features from Fluent solver and solves the simulation in least iterations with utmost accuracy. Once solution is completed it provides you all input data, all aerodynamics coefficients, residuals plots in separate folder in excel format for easy plotting etc. So we have taken ONERA M6 wing and mesh was already created in other course. So we just need mesh and few boundary conditions and reference conditions and rest is done by Fluent Aero. After running solution we will take drag, lift and moment coefficient and compare it will NASA data from 2018 AIAA paper (reference and paper is given in course material) . We will also compare coefficient of pressure from Fluent Aero with experimental data from AGARD and also data from NASA. Some overview of ONERA M6 test caseONERA M6 is a classical  test case for CFD validation. Although geometry is simple, but the flow field involves complex flow features such as  transonic flow (Mach No. 0.7 - 0.92) with shocks, boundary layer separation etc. The ONERA M6 wing was designed in 1972 by the ONERA Aerodynamics Department as an experimental geometry for studying three-dimensional, high Reynolds number flows. ONERA is a swept back wing, with half span. It is external third of M5 Wing without twist. Resources: You will get following resources in this course  1. All power point slides 2. AGARD Report 3. NASA paper 4. Mesh file

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: CFD analysis using Aero model in Fluent and validation of results

Lecture 2 Launching Fluent in Aero mode

Lecture 3 Setting up geometry and flow parameters

Lecture 4 Running solution

Lecture 5 Discussion on results such as drag, lift and moment coefficients

Lecture 6 General post processing

Lecture 7 Comparing Cp (coefficient of pressure) with experimental and CFD data

Aero-engineers in the Aerospace and Defense industries