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The present study is first to provide experimental evidence of tonal noise and acoustic feedback by a stationary airfoil with a tip-gap placed between two side plates. Tones are linked to an aero-acoustic coupling using synchronized…
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A stochastic flow is constructed on a frame bundle adapted to a Riemannian foliation on a compact manifold. The generator A of the resulting transition semigroup is shown to preserve the basic functions and forms, and there is an…
We find the optimally time-dependent (OTD) orthogonal modes about a time-varying flow generated by a strong gust vortex impacting a NACA 0012 airfoil. This OTD analysis reveals the amplification characteristics of perturbations about the…
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Trailing edge noise generated by turbulent flow traveling past an edge of an airfoil is one of the most essential aeroacoustic sound generation mechanisms. It is of great interest for noise problems in various areas of industrial…
Airfoil noise is predicted and analyzed using wall-resolved large-eddy simulations and wavelet transforms for a NACA 0012 airfoil at a Mach number of 0.06 and a Reynolds number of 400,000 using a stair-strip forced transition and a natural…
This study delves into the aerodynamic behavior of a highly flexible NACA 0012 aerofoil, drawing inspiration from avian feathers to handle a gust. We first examined unsteady flow on a rigid wing both experimentally and numerically and then…
This paper presents a novel modeling approach for unsteady aircraft airflow, leveraging the Lorenz attractor framework. The proposed model is based on the force distribution exerted by a lift-generating wing on the surrounding fluid. It…
Airfoil shape optimization plays a critical role in the design of high-performance aircraft. However, the high-dimensional nature of airfoil representation causes the challenging problem known as the "curse of dimensionality". To overcome…
This paper contributes to the understanding of vocal folds oscillation during phonation. In order to test theoretical models of phonation, a new experimental set-up using a deformable vocal folds replica is presented. The replica is shown…