Amandine Guissart, Luis P. Bernal, Grigorios Dimitriadis, Vincent E. Terrapon
DOI Number: N/A
Conference number: IFASD-2015-078
This work exposes and discusses results obtained for aerodynamic forces using an indirect calculation based on Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurements. The methodology used is based on the integral formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations and is applied to spatio-temporal data for different flows around a plate with a 16:1 chord-to-thickness ratio at high angle of attack. Experimental data are obtained in a water channel for both a static and a pitching plate. In addition to PIV data, direct measurements of aerodynamic loads are carried out to assess the quality of the indirect calculation. It is demonstrated that this indirect method is able to compute the mean and the temporal evolution of the lift and drag coefficients with a reasonable accuracy. It is also shown that the noise sensitivity of the method can be partly alleviated through the use of Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) as a pre-processing step to smooth the spatio-temporal data.