Investigations of Free-to-Roll Motions and its Active Control under Pitch-up Maneuvers

Experiments have been carried out at sub-critical Reynolds number to investigate free-to-roll motions induced by forebody and/or wings complex flow on a 30° swept back nonslender wings-slender body-model for static and dynamic (pitch-up) cases. For the dynamic (pitch-up) case it has been observed that roll amplitude decreases and lag increases with increase in pitching speed. Decrease in roll amplitude with increase in pitch rate is attributed to low disturbing rolling moment due to weaker interaction between forebody and wing flow components. Asymmetric forebody vortices dominate and control the roll motion of the model in dynamic case when non-dimensional pitch rate ≥ 1x10-2. Effectiveness of the active control scheme utilizing rotating nose with artificial tip perturbation is observed to be low in the angle of attack region where the complex flow over the wings has contributions from both forebody and wings.

Authors:

• Tanveer A. Khan
• Xue Y. Deng
• Yan K. Wang
• Xu Si-Wen

Keywords:

• Artificial Tip Perturbation
• ExperimentalInvestigations
• Forebody Asymmetric Vortices
• Non-slender Wings-Body Model
• Wing Rock

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