In this study, unsteady pressure field caused by transonic buffeting phenomena on a generic transport model was analyzed using unsteady PSP. The tests were conducted in the JAXA 2-m Transonic Wind Tunnel at M=0.85 and the model angle of attack was varied between 2.5 and 6.8 degrees. From the obtained unsteady PSP data, the RMS of pressure fluctuation was calculated to detect the areas with strong shock oscillation. Spectral analysis was also conducted in order to find frequencies of shock oscillation and their correlation with pressure fluctuation. As the angle of attack increases, the shock position moves upstream and shock oscillation becomes stronger. At 6.8 degrees, two distinct areas with strong shock oscillation were observed. The spectral analysis shows that, under buffeting conditions, shock oscillation frequencies are distributed around either of 490 Hz or 365 Hz. Noticeable effects from the PSP coating on the measured aerodynamic forces were noticed, indicating that even the small roughness of the unsteady PSP coating has an influence on the transonic buffeting phenomena.
Nomenclaturet = time p = pressure M ∞ = Mach number Re = Reynolds number c = chord length c = mean aerodynamic chord length x = model stream wise location = angle of attack I = PSP emission intensity p RMS = Root-Mean-Square of pressure fluctuation p = difference from time-averaged pressure = wing spanwise location (non-dimensional) X(f) = Fast Fourier Transform results of ave /I N FFT = the number of data points for FFT (=2048) f S = frame rate of the high-speed camera Coh 2 = coherence 1 Master's course student, 2 S XX , S YY = auto-spectrum of X and Y S XY = cross-spectrum between X and Y PSD = Power spectrum density Subscripts: ref = refrence condition, 100kPa ave = time-averaged
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