Michell v CFD and EFD: Round 2007

Discussion in 'Software' started by Leo Lazauskas, Dec 5, 2007.

  1. Leo Lazauskas
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    Leo Lazauskas Senior Member

    An easier way would be to go to www.cyberiad.net/michlet_betas.htm and download the executable file on that page. The allowable viscosity range is now 0.5 to 2.0 centipoise.

    Leo.
     
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    Leo
    Thank you for the wider limits. I will have a look and see if it explains the slight difference we see.

    John
    I am surprised by the results for the sand paper. The comparison we had was with a vacuum layup of carbon fibre without out any finishing the difference in drag translated to a 0.1kph in 11.5kph. So on the face of it the friction factors for the 40 grit and 80 grit paper look much worse than I expect. No doubt the orientation of the surface has an impact but the cloth was similar to a fine mesh.

    On the other hand riblets reduce drag so certainly shows smooth surface is not the best. I think there is some opportunity to work on surface damping methods like the animal world has developed but clearly random roughness is not beneficial.

    Rick W.
     
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    Leo
    I have tested it and the results from Michlet with viscosity at 1.6e-6 (4C) are now much closer to what we were measuring in Calgary. The increase in drag is up by 5% from the drag for 1.2e-6 (13C) - the value used previously. The water was cold because Greg had to wait for ice to melt before he could do testing.

    Rick
     
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    Thanks. That's much easier.
    John H.
     

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    Maybe there was a reduction in the total amount of detached flow which compensated for some of the drag from the roughness.

    Yes, worth looking into....

    John H.
     
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