Aerodynamics Analysis on Unsymmetrical Fuselage Models

Abstract:

The large commercial passengers airplanes are mostly designed to have symmetrical body with respect to the longitudinal axis. However for small passengers airplanes or for the airplane designed as UAV plat form is normally having an unsymmetrical fuselage. The aerodynamics characteristics fuselage may give a strong influence to the overall aerodynamics characteristics of the airplane. The present work investigates the aerodynamics characteristics of the unsymmetrical fuselage with respect to the longitudinal axis. The fuselage assumed to have circular cross section and the coordinate of the fuselage are created by using the same equation which had been used in defining the coordinate of cambered airfoil NACA series four digits. The fuselage had been set to have the same maximum thickness 15 % of the fuselage length and different fuselage models are obtained through varying the position as well as the value of the maximum camber line. The semi empirical aerodynamic method for estimating the fuselage lift coefficient C_L, drag coefficient C_D and the fuselage pitching moment coefficient C_M such as given by DATCOM are well established. However when it came to the unsymmetrical fuselage, this approach can not be adopted easily. The required of angle attack at zero lift of the corresponding unsymmetrical fuselage is difficult to define. The result for particular cambered fuselage indicates that the aerodynamics characteristics strongly influenced by how the fuselages camber lines look likes.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 315)
• Pages: 273-277
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.315.273
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: Mohd Ridh bin Abu Bakar, Bambang Basuno, Sulaiman Hasan
• Keywords: Aerodynamic Characteristics of Unsymmetrical Fuselage, DATCOM Method, Semi Empirical Aerodynamic Method

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