Wind Tunnel Testing of Novel Wing Configurations for Design and Customisation in an Industry 4.0 Environment

摘要

Industry 4.0 calls for validated simulations forudrapid customization and through-life designs. Wind tunneludexperiments are widely used in validating flow-field simulationsudfor aircraft design and manufacture. In this paper, we developudtesting for simulating the NACA0015 model wings in variousudshapes and Angles of Attacks (AoA) through an anatomy windudtunnel. Particle traces are recorded during the tests and thenudanalyzed with PIVlab and Tecplot for validating streamlines andudvorticity distributions. The experimental results show that theudwing shape with a relatively large angle of sweepback and anudAoA ranging from +10to +15deg possess good aerodynamicudbehaviors for an aircraft. We discuss future prospects of aircraftudsimulations in an Industry 4.0 context.