Akira Oyama

第53回流体力学講演会/第39回航空宇宙数値シミュレーション技術シンポジウム (2021年6月30日-7月2日. 日本航空宇宙学会 : 宇宙航空研究開発機構(JAXA)オンライン会議) The 53rd Fluid Dynamics Conference / the 39th Aerospace Numerical Simulation Symposium (June 30 - July 2, 2021. The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences : Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Online meeting) In this paper, aerodynamic characteristics around the blade of the hexacopter ''HAMILTON (HexAcopter for Martian pIt crater exploraTiON)'' for Mars exploration are investigated to obtain design knowledge regarding multicopter drone flying in Martian atmosphere. Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulation with the moving overlapped grid was employed for aerodynamic evaluation of two cases; one is hexa-rotor case and the other is single rotor case in order to compare single rotor case and hexa-rotor case and reveal unique characteristics of multirotor case. According to computational results, in both cases, hexa-rotor and single rotor, the maximum figure of merit could be observed at higher hovering thrust conditions. It is suggested that the baseline blade geometry could generate thrust efficiently at higher thrust conditions. The flow structure around the hexa-rotor can be classified into three groups; turn-in side where the flow was drawn the inside by blades rotation, turn-out side where the flow was put out to the outside by blades rotation, and the center side which was located between the turn-in and turn-out sides. The rotors of the center side took the low figure of merit compared with the other rotors because of aerodynamic interference from the turn-in side and the turn-out side rotors. Therefore, the total figure of merit of all rotors increased when the distance among rotors is increased. 形態: カラー図版あり Physical characteristics: Original contains color illustrations 資料番号: AA2130027012 レポート番号: JAXA-SP-21-008