In this episode of the obsidian files we take a look at the empennage section of
the europa and investigate ways to make it more efficient.
For this round of back yard science we have taken our pig and removed all of its
apendag but for the vertical stab... and vwalla our pig has instantly been
transformed
into a pug, sorry plug....
First we ran the pig (3B) head on into a 400kt stream of zero Alpha air and
recorded
the numbers... then we did the same with two variants, one with an added
concave style empennage (Tubby Tub) and one with a more convex style empennage
(3X2). The modelling on both variants was quick and crude with the sole
requirement
being directional signalling; better, or worse... what we ended up with
was one shape similar to a Bonanza and the other a Pipistrel
Between all variants the results were not that dissimilar; so the compare &
contrast
aspect of this study was not remarkable.
Additional runs were also performed at 100kt.
Our meshing resolution was set to high and run through 100 solution cycles each.
Results were as follows:
204m/s (400kt) Alpha 0 (Drag, Lift)
3B (factory) - 141kg, 2kg
TubbyTub (concave) - 149kg, 2kg
3X2 (convex) - 149kg, 11kg
At 51m/s (100kt) all pugs presented similarly at 9kg Drag and 0kg Lift.
Acoustically similar results were returned however the acoustic footprints were
quite different and all becoming active aft of the fuselage max cross-section.
A further journey into this phenomenon revealed boundary layer
friction/cavitation
as the cause for acoustic noise around the fuselage; slower air close to
the surface being pulled back into free stream velocity some one inch above.
As we increase velocity this acoustic noise increases in amplitude. However at
100kt this accoustic energy is only 50-60db; so we could say daytime ambient
silent, i.e inaudible over the drone of nature.
So in the end the results were no greatly different to each other however out of
the three little pigs the Europa's factory empennage shape came out on top on
all accounts.
Europa declared "winner" again!
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