Combined Wind Tunnel Tests and Flow Simulations for Light Aircraft Performance Prediction

Sylvain Mouton (1) , Eric Rantet (2) , Guillaume Gouverneur (3) , Christophe Verbeke (1)

1 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Lille]
2 Aviation Design
3 ESTACA - École Supérieure des Techniques Aéronautiques et de Construction Automobile

This paper presents an example of the use of ONERA L2 wind tunnel, complemented by CFD computations, to derive a complete set of aerodynamic characteristics on a low-speed light aircraft configuration.

Domaines: Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Sylvain Mouton, Eric Rantet, Guillaume Gouverneur, Christophe Verbeke. Combined Wind Tunnel Tests and Flow Simulations for Light Aircraft Performance Prediction. Aerodynamics 2012 (47th AAAF International Symposium of Applied Aerodynamics. Wind tunnel and compulation : a joint strategy for flow prediction), Mar 2012, Paris, France. ⟨hal-03017137⟩