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Department of Aeronautical engineering, KLS Gogte institute of Technology, Karnataka, India
Research Article
Study of Magnus Effect Using Rotating Cylinder on Airfoil at Different Locations
Author(s): Dharmendra P, Pavithra Sullad and Niharika Mallapur*
The need for improving the aerodynamic efficiency and delaying the formation of stall over the wing has been of
concern in the realm of aviation. The main intention of the project is to improve these two parameters. The
configuration used for analysis consists of a NACA (National advisory committee for aeronautics) 2412 airfoil of
chord length 0.982m with a cylinder of 0.064m diameter at 0.15c (chord), 0.3c, and 0.45c as our models. The models
were designed in SOLIDWORKS and analysis is executed using ANSYS Fluent. The turbulence model used is
Spalart Allmaras with a freestream velocity of 10m/s and the RPM of the cylinders is -25000 (clockwise). The
influence of various parameters like horizontal and vertical distances from the leading edge and chord line is
investigated. The rotating cylinder configurations are compared with the bare airfoil’s aerodynamic .. View More»