Wing is the most important part of aircraft which produces lift. In general when aircraft takes off or lands, high lift is required and additional device is adapted in aft and front side of wing. This is called multi element airfoil. The final goal for this study is to construct process to find the most efficient additional wing distribution of relative position of multi-element wings by aerodynamical analysis.
This paper describes the process integration for study of relative position of multi-element airfoil, especially high-lift devices such as slat and flap. eGDeform was used as pre-processor, and this supports mesh deformation to reduce time consumption from mesh regeneration. There were two solver used for aerodynamic analysis. The first one is a commercial tool, ANSYS Fluent, which can be used with more generality and reliability, while the second one is the EDISON CFD solver, which allows practicality and economic feasibility. To combine all process, ModelCenter was used. Through this study, automated combination process which includes aerodynamical analysis and mesh deformation for multi element airfoil was completed. Because of grid quality issue, there were some limitations on the range of high-lift device rearrangement parameters. Even with those limitations, this paper could be steppingstone for study to find effective position of multi-element airfoils easily with simple parameter typing in particular range. In addition, various optimize methods in ModelCenter were introduced through this paper, and DOE was conducted with full factorial method. As a result, process was checked and found to be working properly, and it could be concluded that the current system can be extended to be used for design and analysis of more practical systems, such as 3-Dimensional multi-element wing design problems.