Insights into the periodic gust response of airfoils
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Abstract: The unsteady lift response of an airfoil in a sinusoidal gust can be modeled by two transfer functions: the first-order Sears function and the second-order Atassi function, albeit leading to different results under certain conditions. Previous studies have shown that the Sears function holds in experiments, but recently Cordes et al. (2017) reported experimental data that corresponded to the Atassi function rather than the Sears function. In order to clarify the observed discrepancy, the specific differences between these models are isolated analytically in this study and are related to physical gust parameters. Gusts with these parameters are then produced in wind-tunnel experiments using an active-grid gust generator. Measurements of the unsteady gust loads on an airfoil in the wind tunnel at Reynolds numbers () of and and reduced frequencies between 0.09 and 0.42 confirm that the decisive difference between the Sears and Atassi functions lies in the character of the gust and not in the characteristics of the airfoil. The differences in the gust-response data between Sears and Atassi gust conditions are shown to be significant only at low reduced frequencies. These findings are supported by numerical simulations of the experimental setup. Finally, the influence of boundary-layer turbulence on experimental convergence with model predictions is investigated. These results serve to clarify the conditions under which the Sears and Atassi functions can be applied, and they establish the validity of both in an experimental context.
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