Technical Papers and Presentations

The primary devices used for testing the aerodynamic properties of aircraft constructions are aerodynamic and water tunnels. They enable to visualize the flow and measurement of the moving liquid parameters, which serve to determine aerodynamic characteristics. However, they entail constructing a physical model. Therefore, at present two systems (i.e., CAD/CAM/CAE software) are exploited for analyses in the design phase. The software makes is possible to create virtual 2D and 3D models, as well as examining their properties. The aim of this paper is to make a comparative analysis of the obtained findings of simulation testing with regard to the flow, taking into consideration the aerodynamic parameters by means of the following software packages: COMSOL Multiphysics®, XFOIL, SOLIDWORKS®, Ansys® on the example of Wortmann FX 63-137 airfoil. The presented computational findings of the flow around the model have been compared with experimentally obtained data.