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Numerical investigation of the effect of winglets on the evolution of an aircraft vortex wake

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The effect of winglets on the aerodynamic characteristics of a heavy aircraft and the parameters of the vortex wake behind it is investigated for the landing regime. The solution of the complete problem is obtained by breaking up the wake into three regions, namely, the near, intermediate, and far flowfields, in which the corresponding subproblems are successively solved. The wake flowfields are obtained at different distances from the aircraft, together with the distributions of the mean azimuthal velocity over the vortex radius, and the lifetime of the vortex system is estimated for several one-and two-element wingtip versions. All the results are compared with those for the baseline layout with no winglets.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Voevodin, 2008, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2008, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 60–66.

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Voevodin, A.V. Numerical investigation of the effect of winglets on the evolution of an aircraft vortex wake. Fluid Dyn 43, 725–730 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462808050062

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