Exploiting locality and translational invariance to design effective deep reinforcement learning control of the 1-dimensional unstable falling liquid film

V Belus, J Rabault, J Viquerat, Z Che, E Hachem… - AIP Advances, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Instabilities arise in a number of flow configurations. One such manifestation is the
development of interfacial waves in multiphase flows, such as those observed in the falling …

Reducing the skin-friction drag of a turbulent boundary-layer flow with low-amplitude wall-normal blowing within a Bayesian optimization framework

OA Mahfoze, A Moody, A Wynn, RD Whalley, S Laizet - Physical Review Fluids, 2019 - APS
A Bayesian optimization framework is developed to optimize low-amplitude wall-normal
blowing control of a turbulent boundary-layer flow. The Bayesian optimization framework …

Turbulent drag reduction over curved walls

J Banchetti, P Luchini, M Quadrio - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
This work studies the effects of skin-friction drag reduction in a turbulent flow over a curved
wall, with a view to understanding the relationship between the reduction of friction and …

Assessment of friction drag reduction on a Clark-Y airfoil by uniform blowing

K Eto, Y Kondo, K Fukagata, N Tokugawa - AIAA journal, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
Effects of uniform blowing on a Clark-Y airfoil are investigated experimentally aiming at
turbulent friction drag reduction. The uniform blowing is applied on the rear part of the upper …

[HTML][HTML] Actively reduced airfoil drag by transversal surface waves

M Albers, PS Meysonnat, W Schröder - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2019 - Springer
The flow over a DRA2303 wing section at a Reynolds number of R e= 400,000 is actively
controlled by spanwise traveling transversal surface waves. The actuated low-Mach number …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of the Actuation on the Boundary Layer of an Airfoil at Reynolds Number Re = 60000

I Rodriguez, O Lehmkuhl, R Borrell - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2020 - Springer
Synthetic (zero net mass flux) jets are an active flow control technique to manipulate the flow
field in wall-bounded and free-shear flows. The present paper focuses on the role of the …

Enabling adaptive mesh refinement for spectral-element simulations of turbulence around wing sections

Á Tanarro, F Mallor, N Offermans, A Peplinski… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2020 - Springer
The implementation of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) in the spectral-element method
code Nek5000 is used for the first time on the well-resolved large-eddy simulation of the …

Experimental investigation on friction drag reduction on an airfoil by passive blowing

S Hirokawa, K Eto, K Fukagata… - Journal of Fluid Science …, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Friction drag reduction effect of a passive blowing on a Clark-Y airfoil is investigated.
Uniform blowing, conducted in a wall-normal direction on a relatively wide surface, is …

An investigation of the aerodynamic performance for a fuel saving double channel wing configuration

H Wang, W Gan, D Li - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a fuel saving double channel wing (FADCW) configuration for a
propeller driven aircraft to reduce fuel consumption. In pursuit of this objective, FADCW …

Power-spectral density in turbulent boundary layers on wings

A Tanarro, R Vinuesa, P Schlatter - ERCOFTAC Workshop Direct and …, 2019 - Springer
Turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) subjected to various amplitudes of adverse pressure
gradients (APGs) are of paramount importance in the field of fluid dynamics due to their …