NACA 2415- FINDING LIFT COEFFICIENT USING CFD, THEORETICAL AND JAVAFOIL

Sarfaraj Nawaz Shaha, M. Sadiq A. Pachapuri

Abstract: In this paper we have studied the experimental characteristic graph of NACA 2415.The experimental graphs were taken from the book, “Theory of wing section” by IRA H. ABBOTT. We used these graphs for the validation of our results. Then we use CFD to simulate the experimental flow conditions and check the results and compare them with the experimental results. We meshed the airfoil in ICEM CFD so that the meshing is very precise. We then calculate the NACA 2415 airfoil’s lift at different angle of attack theoretically and using CFD analysis and compare them with the experimental values. We find the errors between experimental and CFD values as well as experimental and theoretical values. We used another simulation software called Javafoil and used it for comparison.

Keywords: Experimental, CFD, Theoretical, Javafoil

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0407070