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Despite intensive applications of Navier-Stokes equations in computational-fluid-dynamics (CFD) to understand aerodynamics, fundamental questions remain open since the statistical nature of discrete air molecules with random thermal motion…
The influence that the kinematics of pitching and heaving 2D airfoils have on the aerodynamic forces is investigated using Direct Numerical Simulations and a force decomposition algorithm. Large amplitude motions are considered (of the…
To understand the mechanics of a complex fluid such as a foam we propose a model experiment (a bidimensional flow around an obstacle) for which an external sollicitation is applied, and a local response is measured, simultaneously. We…
The complete flow field surrounding a rotating cylinder is calculated by solving the Navier-Stokes equations using the finite difference method. The numerical simulation is performed on a transformed rectilinear grid, with axes representing…
To predict liquid-gas two-phase flow phenomena, accurate tracking and prediction of the evolving liquid-gas interface is required. Volume-of-Fluid or VoF method has been used in the literature for computationally modeling of such flows. In…
The paper is concerned with an adjoint complement to the Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method for immiscible two-phase flows, e.g. air and water, which is widely used in marine engineering due to its computational efficiency. The particular…
Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has proven to be a valuable tool for the analysis of complex flow-fields but the application of this technique to flows with moving boundaries is not straightforward. This is due to the difficulty in…
The airflow in a subject-specific breathing human lung is simulated with a multiscale computational fluid dynamics (CFD) lung model. The three-dimensional (3D) airway geometry beginning from the mouth to about 7 generations of airways is…
The planar laminar flow resulting from the impingement of two gaseous jets of different density issuing into an open space from aligned steadily fed slot nozzles of semi-width $R$ separated a distance $2H$ is investigated by numerical and…
Accurate simulations of the flow in the human airway are essential for advancing diagnostic methods. Many existing computational studies rely on simplified geometries or turbulence models, limiting their simulation's ability to resolve flow…
The aerodynamic performance of an isolated coaxial rotor in forward flight is analyzed by a high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach. The analysis focuses on the high-speed forward flight with an advance ratio of 0.5 or…
Geometrical shape of airfoils, together with the corresponding flight conditions, are crucial factors for aerodynamic performances prediction. The obtained airfoils geometrical features in most existing approaches (e.g., geometrical…
This study computes the optimal normal actuation on the surface of a NACA0012 airfoil at an angle of attack of 15{\deg} and a Reynolds number of Re = 1000, using costs defined for minimal drag and maximal lift. To allow for a general…
Aerodynamic force and flow structures of two airfoils in tandem configuration performing flapping motions are studied, using the method of solving the Navier-Stokes equations in moving overset grids. Three typical phase differences between…
We experimentally study the airflow in a collapsing cavity created by the impact of a circular disk on a water surface. We measure the air velocity in the collapsing neck in two ways: Directly, by means of employing particle image…
The aim of this paper is to show the influence of the atmospheric boundary layer profile on the distribution of velocity in a building having two large openings. The knowledge of the flow form inside a building is useful to define a thermal…
The present paper reports on the numerical investigation of lifted turbulent jet flames with H2/N2 fuel issuing into a vitiated coflow of lean combustion products of H2/air using conditional moment closure method (CMC). A 2D axisymmetric…
We simulate quasistatic flows of an ideal two-dimensional monodisperse foam around different obstacles, both symmetric and asymmetric, in a channel. We record both pressure and network contributions to the drag and lift forces, and study…
In this work we present an advanced computational pipeline for the approximation and prediction of the lift coefficient of a parametrized airfoil profile. The non-intrusive reduced order method is based on dynamic mode decomposition (DMD)…
The 3D flying shape of a real-scale 8 square meters iQFOiL class windsurf sail is measured in steady state sailing configurations. The sea wind flow conditions are simulated in a large-scale wind tunnel and stereo camera imaging technique…