Simulation of Wing Stall

Simulation capabilities for low-speed aircraft stall prediction are important for determining the limits of safe aircraft operations during design processes. The simulations are extremely demanding in terms of physical models involved, overall computation effort, and the needed efforts for validation. The present paper describes coordinated, fundamental research into new simulation methodologies for wing stall that also include the effects of atmospheric gusts. The research is carried out by the DFG funded Research Unit FOR 1066 composed of German Universities and the German Aerospace Center, DLR. The research Unit investigates advanced models of turbulence, advanced physics-based gust models, and new numerical approaches for gust simulation. These modeling and computational activities are supplemented by an unique validation experiment, that aims at providing stall data on a high-lift wing with well defined, generic distortions of the onset flow.