The Aerodynamics Analysis on Cambered Fuselage Model

Abstract:

There various factors gives influence in determining the fuselage shapes, such as the payload, cockpit, wing and tail placements or in manner up and down loading the payload for a cargo aircraft. These factors may come up the fuselage is no longer as symmetrical fuselage but represent as a cambered fuselage. As results the lift coefficient as well as its pitching moment coefficient is no longer equal to zero as the angle of attack goes to zero. Basically the manner how to determine the fuselage aerodynamics characteristics for cambered fuselage can be done in similar way as in the case of symmetrical fuselage by simply replacing the angle of attack α term with (α-α_L=0), where α_L=0 represent the angle of attack at zero lift. The present work use a similar manner in determining the zero lift angle of attack as it had been used in DATCOM software. To investigate the effect of camber on the aerodynamics characteristic fuselage, the present work use a fuselage model with a circular cross section where the location of center of the circle placed along the fuselage’s camber line. The fuselage’s camber line defined according to the definition of camber line of NACA airfoils. Aerodynamics analysis on over various fuselage models indicate that the maximum camber line thickness and their position give a significant influent to the fuselage aerodynamics characteristics.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 660)
• Pages: 492-497
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.660.492
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Mohd Zarif bin Md Shah*, Mohd Ridh bin Abu Bakar, Bambang Basuno
• Keywords: Camber Line, DATCOM Software, Drag Coefficient, Lift Coefficient, NACA Series, Pitching Moment Coefficient

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