Open AccessEffect of Vertical Canard Location on Skin Friction Drag
Author(s) -
Padakanti Saisuryateja,
Yagya Dutta Dwivedi,
Raju Santhani,
Abrar MD,
VENKATA SAI BHANUDEEP GANDLA
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
graduate research in engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-6632
DOI - 10.47893/gret.2022.1053
Subject(s) - fuselage , airfoil , wing , drag , aerospace engineering , aerodynamics , chord (peer to peer) , wind tunnel , angle of attack , lift to drag ratio , lift induced drag , parasitic drag , wing configuration , zero lift drag coefficient , geology , mechanics , structural engineering , physics , engineering , computer science , distributed computing
This study investigates the viscous skin friction drag generation due to the three different vertical canard locations on the mid winger un-swept aircraft scaled-down model by using boundary layer measurements in the wind tunnel. The N22 airfoil was selected for the canard and the modified S1223 airfoil was selected for the wing. The laser cutting technique was employed for the fabrication of the wing, and canard airfoils, which gave sufficient dimensional accuracy to the model. The canard, wing, and fuselage were fabricated by balsa wood and strengthened by Aluminum stripes. The assembled model is tested in an open subsonic wind tunnel a fixed chord Reynolds number 3.8*106. The boundary layers were measured at 70% of the chord and at three different wingspan locations i.e. 30%, 60%, and 90% with 00 incidence angle. The canards were positioned at three vertical positions one at fuselage reference line (FRL) and the remaining two locations at ± 0.16 c from the FRL. The results were compared with wing-body alone and with three canard locations and found that the high canard configuration outperformed the other two configurations and also wing-body alone configuration as it provides half of the total drag. However, the high canard produces 15% more drag than the wing-body alone at the wing tip (90%).The aerodynamic performance of the high canard configuration was found to be significantly promising for the future use in drones and other small aircrafts.