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Airfoils pitching in the stalled regime have been of keen interest in recent years due to their desirable aerodynamic force characteristics. In this study, we are numerically investigating the unsteady flow past a NACA 0012 airfoil under…
We propose here a method to experimentally quantify unsteady leading-edge flow separation on aerofoils with finite thickness. The methodology relies on the computation of a leading-edge suction parameter based on measured values of the…
The spanwise organization of the flow over a thick airfoil is investigated using surface pressure measurements for a range of angles of attack around maximum lift and high Reynolds numbers (1 Million). Locally strong pressure fluctuations,…
We study the effect of particle shape on the turbulence in suspensions of spheroidal particles at volume fraction $\phi = 10\%$ and show how the near-wall particle dynamics deeply changes with the particle aspect ratio and how this affects…
Surface roughness is a major contributor to performance degradation in gas turbine engines. The fan and the compressor, as the first components in the engine's air path, are especially vulnerable to the effects of surface roughness. Debris…
Laminar separation bubbles around airfoils lead to the growth of instability waves, which enhances to acoustic scattering at the trailing-edge, forming a feedback loop that produces to tonal noise. To reduce the trailing-edge tonal noise,…
This research examines the aerodynamic performance of wavy (corrugated) airfoils, focusing specifically on analyzing the impact of two angles of attack: the airfoil's angle of attack and the tail's angle of attack (beta). Simulations were…
Inspired by the natural motion of insects, fish, and other animals, flapping airfoils have gained significant importance due to their applications in fields such as ship propulsion, micro aerial vehicles, and autonomous underwater vehicles.…
Many traditional methods for wind turbine design and analysis assume quasi-steady aerodynamics, but atmospheric flows are inherently unsteady and modern turbine blades are susceptible to aeroelastic deformations. This study therefore…
The present study investigates influence of compressibility on separation induced transition in a low pressure turbine cascade using high fidelity direct numerical simulations of the T106A blade. Simulations are performed for inlet Mach…
This research computationally investigates the complex dynamic stall phenomena of a cross-flow turbine blade utilizing modal analysis to identify pertinent events within the cycle. The blade rotation perpendicular to the freestream…
Active flow control is applied to improve the aerodynamic performance of a NACA0018 airfoil operating as a single-bladed vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). Results computed by wall-resolved large-eddy simulations (LES) highlight the…
We conducted high-resolution large-eddy simulations (LESs) to explore the effects of opposition control (OC) on turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) over a wing at a chord-based Reynolds number (${Re}_c$) of 200,000. Two scenarios were studied:…
Direct dry-cooled power plants typically operate numerous large-diameter axial flow fans in air-cooled condensers to facilitate the condensation of steam in the plant thermodynamic cycle. Enhanced fan efficiency may, at scale, lead to…
We evaluate the loss of stability of axially compressed slender and thick-walled tubes subject to a residual stress distribution. The nonlinear theory of elasticity, when used to analyze the underlying deformation, shows that the residual…
CFD studies have been performed to demonstrate the effects of rotation on large wind turbine blades. The 10 MW blade of the Advanced Aerodynamic Tools for Large Rotors (AVATAR) project was selected in the present investigation. In order to…
The application of drag-control strategies on canonical wall-bounded turbulence, such as periodic channel and zero- or adverse-pressure-gradient boundary layers, raises the question of how to describe control effects consistently for…
The flexibility of biological propulsors such as wings and fins is believed to contribute to the higher performance of flying and swimming animals compared with their engineered peers. Flexibility seems to follow a universal design rule…
Combined pitching-and-surging of an airfoil at the identical frequency (i.e., synchronously), at four different phase-differences, was investigated theoretically and experimentally. The most general unsteady theoretical formulation was…
Tesla turbines are an attractive but less explored area in low-power applications. This article presents an experimental investigation of a centimeter scale Tesla turbine in bi and unidirectional outlet configuration with compressed air at…