Flow control for unmanned air vehicles

D Greenblatt, DR Williams - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The pervasiveness of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), from insect to airplane scales,
combined with active flow control maturity, has set the scene for vehicles that differ markedly …

Resolvent-analysis-based design of airfoil separation control

CA Yeh, K Taira - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We use resolvent analysis to design active control techniques for separated flows over a
NACA 0012 airfoil. Spanwise-periodic flows over the airfoil at a chord-based Reynolds …

Cluster-based feedback control of turbulent post-stall separated flows

AG Nair, CA Yeh, E Kaiser, BR Noack… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We propose a cluster-based control strategy for feedback control of post-stall separated
flows over an airfoil. The present approach partitions the flow trajectories (force …

Resolvent analysis of an airfoil laminar separation bubble at

CA Yeh, SI Benton, K Taira, DJ Garmann - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
We perform a resolvent analysis to examine the perturbation dynamics over the laminar
separation bubble (LSB) that forms near the leading edge of a NACA 0012 airfoil at a chord …

Analysis of the onset and evolution of a dynamic stall vortex on a periodic plunging aerofoil

R Miotto, W Wolf, D Gaitonde, M Visbal - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The onset and evolution of the dynamic stall vortex (DSV) are analysed by means of large
eddy simulations of an SD7003 aerofoil undergoing periodic plunging motion in a …

Flow imaging as an alternative to non-intrusive measurements and surrogate models through vision transformers and convolutional neural networks

RF Miotto, WR Wolf - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A numerical framework is proposed whereby flow imaging data are leveraged to extract
relevant information from flowfield visualizations. To this end, a vision transformer (ViT) …

Investigation of transition and its active control in separation bubbles for a wing section at Re= 200k: dns, theory, and experiments

S Hosseinverdi, A Grille Guerra, HF Fasel… - AIAA Scitech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-2329. vid The fundamental flow
physics of transition in uncontrolled and controlled separation bubbles for a modified NACA …

Pitch–Plunge Equivalence in Dynamic Stall of Ramp Motion Airfoils

R Miotto, W Wolf, D Gaitonde, M Visbal - AIAA Journal, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
Large-eddy simulations (LES) are employed to investigate the pitch–plunge equivalence of
an SD7003 airfoil undergoing constant ramp motions at Reynolds number R e= 6× 10 4. The …

Extending the Reynolds number range of high-frequency control of dynamic stall

SI Benton, MR Visbal - AIAA Journal, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
A recently proposed high-frequency control concept for dynamic-stall mitigation is
demonstrated using large-eddy simulation of a pitching NACA 0012 airfoil at a chord …

Effects of leading-edge geometry on the onset of dynamic stall

SI Benton, MR Visbal - AIAA Journal, 2018 - arc.aiaa.org
S= spanwise extent of grid section s= surface distance t= time t0= acceleration period for
ramp motion U∞= freestream velocity x; y; z= Cartesian coordinate α= angle of attack …