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High-fidelity simulations are performed to study active flow control techniques for alleviating deep dynamic stall of a SD7003 airfoil in plunging motion. The flow Reynolds number is $Re=60{,}000$ and the freestream Mach number is $M=0.1$.…

We train active neural-network flow controllers using a deep learning PDE augmentation method to optimize lift-to-drag ratios in turbulent airfoil flows at Reynolds number $5\times10^4$ and Mach number 0.4. Direct numerical simulation and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Xuemin Liu , Tom Hickling , Jonathan F. MacArt

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-13 Akhil Aravind , Pradeep Kumar Seshadri , Ashoke De

This study uncovers a striking similarity between massively separated laminar and turbulent flows that develop over a square wing during extreme vortex gust encounters. The evolving large-scale, vortical core structures responsible for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 Hiroto Odaka , Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Kunihiko Taira

Unsteady shock-boundary-layer interaction on the lower surface of a transport-aircraft wing can be caused or amplified by ultrahigh-bypass-ratio underwing nacelle installation. This work analyzes the resulting buffet dynamics on the Airbus…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-19 Sebastian Spinner , Andre Weiner

The two-dimensional flows around a cylinder between two parallel walls at Re=40 and Re=100 are simulated with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The governing equations are Navier-Stokes equations. They are discretized with finite volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-13 Hua-Shu Dou , An-Qing Ben

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-09 Marcel Menner , Eugene Lavretsky

Airflow through the nasal cavity exhibits a wide variety of fluid dynamicsbehaviour due to the intricacy of the nasal geometry. The flow is naturallyunsteady and perhaps turbulent, despite CFD in the literature that assumesa steady laminar…

Resolvent analysis is performed to identify the origin of two-dimensional transonic buffet over an airfoil. The base flow for the resolvent analysis is the time-averaged flow over a NACA 0012 airfoil at a chord-based Reynolds number of 2000…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-25 Yoimi Kojima , Chi-An Yeh , Kunihiko Taira , Masaharu Kameda

The study of coolant flow behavior in rod bundles is of relevance to the design of nuclear reactors. Although laminar and turbulent flows have been researched extensively, there are still gaps in understanding the process of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-31 Carolina Bourdot Dutra , Elia Merzari

Experiments were conducted in a low-turbulence wind tunnel to investigate the efficacy of localised acoustic forcing upon the dynamics and stability of the flow on a cambered, wall-bounded airfoil over a range of Reynolds numbers (Re) where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-22 Charles Klewicki , Ari Schenkman , Geoffrey Spedding

The 2D hydrodynamic model for a dust cloud confined in an axisymmetric toroidal system volumetrically driven by an unbounded streaming plasma is further extended systematically for different aspect-ratio of the bounded dust domain and a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Modhuchandra Laishram , Devendra Sharma , Ping Zhu

Flutter in lightweight airfoils under unsteady flows presents a critical challenge in aeroelastic stability and control. This study uncovers phase-localized mechanisms that drive the onset and suppression of flutter in a freely pitching…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Chathura R. Sumanasiri , Tulsi Ram Sahu , Aditya G. Nair

Aerodynamic prediction of glaze ice accretion on airfoils and wing is studied using the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes method. Two separation fixed turbulence models are developed considering the nonequilibrium characteristics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-27 Haoran Li , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen

The paper investigates shock-induced vortical flows within inhomogeneous media of nonuniform thermodynamic properties. Numerical simulations are performed using an Eularian type mathematical model for compressible multi-component flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-28 A. F. Nowakowski , A. Ballil , F. C. G. A Nicolleau

A 2D hydrodynamical model is developed and analyzed for the steady state of a driven-dissipative dust clouds confined in an azimuthally symmetric toroidal system which is in dynamic equilibrium with background unbounded streaming plasma.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Modhuchandra Laishram , Ping Zhu

A quantitative analysis illustrating salient features of a Laminar Separation Bubble (LSB), its transition forming coherent structures, and associated heat transfer has been performed on a flat plate for varying free stream turbulence (fst)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-14 Sonalika Srivastava , Subrata Sarkar

In this work, the stability and transition to turbulence over a blunt flat plate with different leading-edge radii are investigated computationally. The freestream Mach number is 5, the unit Reynolds number is $6\times10^7$ m$^{-1}$, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Peixu Guo , Jiaao Hao , Chih-Yung Wen

This study examines the relaminarization of turbulent puffs in pipe flow using highly resolved direct numerical simulations at Reynolds numbers of 1880, 1900, and 1920. The exponential decay of the total energy of streamwise velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-17 Basheer A. Khan , Shai Arogeti , Oriel Shoshani , Alexander Yakhot

The transonic flight regime is often dominated by transonic buffet, a highly unsteady and complex shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction involving major parts of the flow field. The phenomenon is associated with a large-amplitude periodic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 Christopher Julian Schauerte , Anne-Marie Schreyer