Research Article

Numerical Simulation of Airfoil Aerodynamic Penalties and Mechanisms in Heavy Rain

Table 2

Calculated rain condition.

Variable Value

LWC/(g/m3) 25
Raindrop arithmetic mean diameter/(mm) 1
Air freestream velocity/(m/s) 48.4632
Raindrop vertical velocity/(m/s) −4
Air density/(kg/m3) 1.225
Airfoil chord length/(m) 0.762
Air freestream Reynolds number
Reference pressure/(Pa)
Reference temperature/(K) 273