A review of flow control for gust load alleviation

Y Li, N Qin - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Gust load control, aircraft weight reduction, aircraft drag reduction.
Abstract Effective control of aerodynamic loads, such as maneuvering load and gust load …

Active control for wall drag reduction: Methods, mechanisms and performance

L Zhang, X Shan, T Xie - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active reducing the skin friction drag of vehicles (such as missiles, rockets, aircraft, high-
speed train, submarines, etc.) during the navigation process can improve the respond speed …

Turbulent drag reduction in Taylor-Couette flows using different super-hydrophobic surface configurations

MS Naim, MF Baig - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulent drag reduction (DR) in an incompressible Taylor-Couette flow configuration using
different patterns of “idealized” superhydrophobic surfaces (SHS) on rotating inner-wall is …

Flow control of the wake vortex street of a circular cylinder by using a traveling wave wall at low Reynolds number

F Xu, WL Chen, WF Bai, YQ Xiao, JP Ou - Computers & Fluids, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present study, a traveling wave wall (TWW) was employed to manipulate the vortex
shedding behind a fixed circular cylinder based on a 2-D CFD numerical simulation method …

Optimal shape design and transition uncertainty analysis of transonic axisymmetric natural laminar flow nacelle at high Reynolds number

Z Tang, M Zhang, X Hu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Laminar flow drag reduction is an important way to improve the cost effectiveness of civil
aircraft. In this paper, a hybrid game based optimization method is applied to optimize an …

Turbulent drag reduction in compressible flows using streamwise traveling waves

M Ahmad, MF Baig, SF Anwer - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Skin-friction drag reduction (DR) in supersonic turbulent channel flows using streamwise
traveling waves of spanwise velocity (STWSV) has been studied using direct numerical …

Enhanced drag-reduction over superhydrophobic surfaces with sinusoidal textures: A DNS study

PA Fuaad, KA Prakash - Computers & Fluids, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) studies of a fully developed turbulent channel
flow are performed with sinusoidal surface texture to assess its ability to enhance turbulent …

Drag-reduction in buoyant and neutrally-buoyant turbulent flows over super-hydrophobic surfaces in transverse orientation

PA Fuaad, MF Baig, H Ahmad - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study involves Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of a turbulent channel flow
subject to passive-control of super-hydrophobic surfaces (SHS) employed in form of …

Turbulent drag reduction using active control of buoyancy forces

PA Fuaad, MF Baig, BA Khan - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study involves Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of a turbulent channel flow
subject to spatially modulated thermal forcing with a special interest to realize reduction of …

Effect of hydrodynamics on the inhibition effect of thioureido imidazoline inhibitor for the flow accelerated corrosion of X65 pipeline steel

L Zeng, GA Zhang, XP Guo - Corrosion, 2016 - meridian.allenpress.com
Effect of hydrodynamics on the inhibition effect of thioureido imidazoline inhibitor (TAI) for
the flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) of X65 carbon steel elbow was studied by …