Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Havacılık ve Uzay Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2017
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Emre Sazak
Danışman: DİLEK FUNDA KURTULUŞ
Özet:Performance of amphibious unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s) that take off from and land on water, like seaplanes, greatly depend on hydrodynamic effects as well as aerodynamic effects, therefore their geometries need to be optimized for both. This study mainly investigates the effect of geometric parameters of a generic, hull-shaped fuselage that are constrained by hydrodynamic drivers, such as the step height needed to reduce hydrodynamic drag, sternpost angle and deadrise angle needed for safe landing; on aerodynamic drag of the fuselage under cruise conditions by using the commercial CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) code ANSYS Fluent. Study includes a comparison of the experimental results obtained from literature with numerical results around a hull-shaped fuselage at angles of attack varying between -8° to 16°.