This review paper presents an overview of Vortex Methods for flow simulation and their
different sub-approaches, from their creation to the present. Particle methods distinguish …

Electric aircraft technology has enabled the use of multiple rotors in novel concepts for urban
air mobility. However, multirotor configurations introduce strong aerodynamic and …

We perform the large-eddy simulation of the flow past a helicopter rotor to support the
investigation of rotorcraft wake characteristics and decay mechanisms. A hybrid Lagrangian …

From small drones to large Urban Air Mobility vehicles, the market of vertical take-off and
landing (VTOL) aircraft is currently booming. Modern VTOL designs feature a variety of …

A novel formulation of the vortex particle method (VPM) is developed for large-eddy
simulation (LES) in a meshless scheme that is numerically stable. A new set of VPM …

The application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to energy-related problems has
increased in the last decades in both renewable and conventional energy conversion …

The numerical study of the wake of full-scale slender devices such as aircraft wings and
wind turbine blades requires high-fidelity large eddy simulation tools. The broad spectrum of …

The vortex particle method (VPM) is a mesh-free approach to computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) solving the Navier-Stokes equations in their velocity-vorticity form. The VPM uses a …

Individual pitch control has shown great capability of alleviating the oscillating loads
experienced by wind turbine blades due to wind shear, atmospheric turbulence, yaw …

Vertical axis wind turbines of troposkein architecture are among the most attractive
technologies for harvesting wind energy off-shore. In this paper, a high-fidelity …