Method for Designing Leading-Edge Fillets to Eliminate Flow Separation

Parametric Exploration of Wing–Body Junction Flow Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

“…Green and Whitesides [24] presented a similar approach, except OVERFLOW was employed to calculate the flow properties. They developed a relationship between skinfriction coefficient and turning angle to iteratively define the optimum leading-edge strake shape.…”

Experimental and Computational Analysis of Model–Support Interference in Low-Speed Wind-Tunnel Testing of Fuselage-Boundary-Layer Ingestion

“…One way of mitigating the junction flow is by reducing the induced pressure gradient through the employment of a leading-edge fillet. The performance and the design of LE fillets have been vastly assessed in literature, also through CFD-based methods [6,7]. Van Oudheusden et al [8] proposed a design procedure based on the combination of a panel method for the solution of the potential flow and an integral method for the solution of the approaching boundary layer on the attachment line.…”

Designing and Testing a Blended Wing Body with Boundary-Layer Ingestion Nacelles

“…There is also a capability in CDISC based on the work of Green 22 that modifies a surface directly based on the difference between the current skin-friction distribution and a target distribution. Though more direct than the pressure-based constraints, this approach has been found to be much slower since more flow iterations were required per design cycle to adequately reflect the skin friction change rather than a pressure change resulting from a given geometry modification.…”