A computational study of a lifting wing in close proximity to a moving ground plane
Master Thesis
2009
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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.
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Smuts, E. 2009. A computational study of a lifting wing in close proximity to a moving ground plane. University of Cape Town.