FLOW ANALYSIS OF KITE SHAPED WING DESIGN

The original idea was to figure the aerodynamics of kite and implementing the outcomes in the aircraft wing as the kite shapes possess very good aerodynamic property and more flow attachment is observed in it.The discussion is made on various types of kite shapes, from the discussion we have chosen hexagon shape as a model because the tip region is uniform so the flow attachment is more and the tip vortices generation is very low on comparing to other shapes by this shape the wing has to be modified .Airfoil NACA0021 is selected for drafting the wing design .The CATIA model is drawn for the wing designs using CATIA v5 . The model is then meshed with the HYPERMESH on the selected boundary condition.Then the model is analyzed using ANSYS FLUENT with a cruising speed of 240m/s at various angle of attack such as - 12, - 5,0,5,12 and the result is taken as different cases. From the results a comparison is made between the modified wing to the normal wing .The ultimate aim is to point out that the flow separation in hexagon wing for both airfoils reduces so that there is more lift generation than normal wing.