Experimental and computational investigation of transverse gust encounters

H Biler, C Badrya, AR Jones - AIAA Journal, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
The flow over a flat-plate wing passing through a transverse gust was investigated using
both experimental and computational methods. The gust created physically in a water-filled …

Deep learning based reduced order model for airfoil-gust and aeroelastic interaction

R Halder, M Damodaran, BC Khoo - AIAA Journal, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
This work aims to model transonic airfoil–gust interaction and the gust response on
transonic aileron-buzz problems using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical modelling of aerodynamic response to gusts and gust effect mitigation

W Yuan, X Zhang, D Poirel, A Wall - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flights in urban environments are challenging due to the
complex flow structures and elevated turbulence around buildings. Consequently, research …

Effect of gust width on flat-plate response in large transverse gust

C Badrya, H Biler, AR Jones, JD Baeder - AIAA Journal, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
The split velocity method was applied to study the response of a finite flat-plate wing with an
aspect ratio of four encountering a large transverse gust with various gust widths. The gust is …

Effect of wingtip bending morphing on gust-induced aerodynamics based on fluid-structure interaction method

Y Zheng, Y Dai, C Yang, Y Li, Y Hu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This paper investigates the effect of wingtip bending morphing on gust-induced
aerodynamics based on the fluid–structure interaction (FSI) method at Re= 40 000. First, an …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of two wind gust injection methods: Field velocity vs. split velocity method

K Boulbrachene, G De Nayer, M Breuer - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of the present paper is to revisit two well-known wind gust injection methods in
a consistent manner and to assess their performance based on different application cases …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of discrete wind gust parameters: Towards the worst-case scenario of a FSI application in form of an inflated hemisphere

G De Nayer, M Breuer - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper is a step towards the evaluation of the worst-case scenario caused by strong wind
gusts impacting civil engineering air-inflated lightweight structures. These extreme events …

Application of prescribed velocity methods to a large-amplitude flat-plate gust encounter

C Badrya, JD Baeder, AR Jones - AIAA Journal, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents a computational method to study a translating flat plate at steady
velocity encountering a sudden transverse gust for different gust magnitudes and airfoil …

Helicopter rotor design using a time-spectral and adjoint-based method

S Choi, K Lee, MM Potsdam, JJ Alonso - Journal of Aircraft, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
A time-spectral and adjoint-based optimization method was developed and applied to
helicopter rotor design for unsteady level flight. The time-spectral method is a fast and …

Linear reduced order modelling for gust response analysis using the DLR-TAU code

S Timme, KJ Badcock, A Da Ronch - 2013 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
A unified modelling approach, using computational fluid dynamics, to calculate the flutter
stability and dynamic gust response of realistic aircraft models is outlined. The approach …