Wind tunnel and free-flight testing of active flow control for modified NACA 64₃-618 airfoil

A wing glove for active flow control free-fiight experiments using a one-fifth dynamically scaled Aeromot 200S Super Ximango motor glider was developed. The wing glove has a modified NACA 643-618 airfoil and is instrumented with off-the-shelf pressure transducers and amplitude-modulated synthetic jet actuators. Before the flight-testing was commenced the wing glove and the instrumentation were tested in two open return low-speed wind tunnels. Due to the low-aspect ratio of the glove, particular attention was paid to the two-dimensionality of the flow field over the wing glove. Several flight experiments were carried out and free-flight data with and without actuation were recorded. Unexpected challenges that were encountered during the flight-testing are discussed and an analysis of the wall pressure data in the frequency domain is provided.