Aerodynamic Analysis of NACA 2412 airfoil using ANSYS

Abstract

Fluid flow analysis over an airfoil is crucial for understanding aerodynamic performance including lift, drag and stability. This work presents a numerical analysis and investigation into the design of airfoils focusing on the NACA 4-digit series. The research employs ANSYS simulation tools to model and analyze the aerodynamics of airfoils. NACA 4-digit airfoil generator is utilized to import the airfoil geometry of NACA 2412 series. A C-shaped computational domain is considered as the fluid domain in which the airfoil geometry is imported. The simulation results provide the variation of pressure and velocity of air while moving over the airfoil. Also, the effects of lift and drag forces are analyzed by plotting the graphs between co-efficient of lift vs time and co-efficient of drag vs time.