A computational study of a lifting wing in close proximity to a moving ground plane

Commercial software packages Fluent® and Gambit® were used to develop a 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model to determine the aerodynamic characteristics of a DHMTU lifting wing flying in ground effect. In particular, the performance of the wing in the presence of waves was of interest. But first a reliable computational model had to be developed to simulate waves flowing past the wing. Therefore the objective of this study was to develop such a model.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

2009

Author dc:creator

• Smuts, Evan M

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Sayers, Andrew

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12129

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12129