CFD Analysis in Advance of the NASA Juncture Flow Experiment

Speaker: Henry Lee, Science and Technology Corporation / NASA Ames Research Center
September 14, 2017

Presentation

Abstract

NASA through its Transformational Tools and Technologies Project (TTT) is supporting a substantial effort to investigate the formation and origin of separation bubbles found on wing-body juncture zones. The flow behavior in these regions is highly complex, difficult to measure experimentally, and challenging to model numerically. Multiple wing configurations were designed and evaluated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and a series of wind tunnel risk reduction tests were performed to further down-select the candidates for the final experiment. This talk focuses on the CFD analysis done in conjunction with the 6 percent scale risk reduction experiment performed in NASA Langley’s 14- by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel. The combined CFD and wind tunnel results ultimately helped the Juncture Flow committee select the wing configurations for the final experiment.

Biography

Henry Lee is an aerospace engineer with Science and Technology Corporation, working with both the SLS group at NASA Ames and the Juncture Flow experiment design committee, in the Computational Aerosciences Branch. He obtained his Bachelors from University of California San Diego in 2007, and his Masters in Aeronautics/Astronautics Engineering from Stanford University in 2009.

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