Research Article
Streamline Effect Improvement of Additive Manufactured Airfoil
Utilizing Dynamic Stream Control Procedure
R. Srinath,
1,2
R. Mukesh,
3
Manish C. Poojari,
4
Inamul Hasan ,
3
and Wubetu Amare Alebachew
5
1
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India
2
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore, India
3
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, ACS College of Engineering, Bangalore 560074, Karnataka, India
4
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
5
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Debre Tabor University, Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Correspondence should be addressed to Wubetu Amare Alebachew; wubeama@dtu.edu.et
Received 28 June 2022; Revised 18 August 2022; Accepted 27 August 2022; Published 17 September 2022
Academic Editor: K. Raja
Copyright © 2022 R. Srinath et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In the era of fast transport, to create inventive stream flow management solutions that are capable of diminishing the aerodynamic
drag of the vehicles, there is a need to modify the flow characteristics over the vehicle by deferring or expelling the position of the
flow partition. e objective of this study involves the parameterized design of an airfoil utilizing the Bezier curve technique with
the assistance of the simulation program. For flow regulations, synthetic jet modules are ingrained at different percentages of the
chord to manage the stall characteristics. e parametrization system, combined with the stream control method, can give a much
better insight into flow re-energization and pave some way for the reduction of the wake. Digital fabrication technique (3d
printing or Rapid Prototyping method) is used to fabricate the end product for aerodynamic testing. e comparative outcome
showed a reduction in drag at certain angles of attack due to the surface finish obtained. By comparing the results, the aerodynamic
efficiency showed a significant rise of 13.05% at lower angles of attack when compressed gas was used in the synthetic jet closer to
the frontier edge of the airfoil. Near the stall angle of attack, the coefficient of lift (Cl) and coefficient of drag (Cd) values showed
no progress.
1. Introduction
Diminishment of drag over an airfoil is dealt with in two
stages. e configuration file is described in the right
detail first, and then the flow control device is added later.
ere are diverse holes available to model the rib profile
curve. ey are adjusted beneath a roof referred to as
parameterization procedures. Parameterization tech-
niques include Bezier curves, Class-Shape function
Transformation, Hicks-Henne “Bump” function and
polynomial method, Ferguson curve, and ?
3
[1]. Each
parameterization strategies have its own recompenses,
Selection of the exact method guarantees the smoothness
of the 2d bend, the more parameters the optimization
process could seek out more aerofoil shapes. On the other
hand, with more design parameters, it would be costly to
seek design space unwanted curves. e parameterization
technique used here is Bezier curve which comes with the
disadvantage of no local control. With this change, the
position of a control point affects the entire curve. Bezier
curve parameterization is a spline curve with a parametric
methodology (u, t) that can be used to more precisely
model a 2D aerofoil. e advantage of the Bezier curve
over others is the ease of computation, steadiness at the
lower degrees of control points, and a Bezier curve can be
turned and interpreted by performing operations on the
control points, which comes with a disadvantage of no
local control. With this change, the position of a control
point affects the entire curve. Although the work has
nothing to do with optimization, the use of
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume 2022, Article ID 1252681, 12 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1252681