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The flows around a NACA 0018 airfoil at a Reynolds number of 10250 and angles of attack of alpha = 0 (A0) and alpha = 10 (A10) are modelled using resolvent analysis and limited experimental measurements obtained from particle image…
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Aerodynamic shape optimization has established itself as a valuable tool in the engineering design process to achieve highly efficient results. A central aspect for such approaches is the mapping from the design parameters which encode the…
The purpose of this work is to investigate the flow around a fixed NACA0012 airfoil profile at different angles of attack using wall-resolved LES. The profile has a chord length of c=0.1 m and is exposed to a flow at a Reynolds number of…
This study investigates the dynamics of passively morphing foils under accelerated plunging, establishing mechanistic links between transient kinematics, structural compliance, and aerodynamic performance. Two-way coupled simulations are…
Due to the augmentation of the significance of wind energy, giving a high priority to the \text{airfoil's} efficiency enhancement is obligatory. To improve the performance of airfoils, many impressive techniques are already invented. In…
We introduce an adjoint-based aerodynamic shape optimization framework that integrates a diffusion model trained on existing designs to learn a smooth manifold of aerodynamically viable shapes. This manifold is enforced as an equality…
The computational cost of traditional Computational Fluid Dynamics-based Aerodynamic Shape Optimization severely restricts design space exploration. This paper introduces TripOptimizer, a fully differentiable deep learning framework for…
We develop and apply a novel shape optimization exemplified for a two-blade rotor with respect to the figure of merit ($FM$). This topologically assisted optimization (TAO) contains two steps. First a global evolutionary optimization is…
This study introduces a framework for the design and implementation of acoustic black holes (ABHs) in airfoils. A generalized multi-parameter damped-ABH generation function is mapped onto NACA series airfoils. Representative geometries and…
The Darrieus vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are one of the mainstream devices for wind energy utilization in the urban areas. The market's pursuit of high wind energy conversion efficiency promotes the research on improving the wind…
This paper presents a detailed aeroacoustic investigation of a Controlled-Diffusion airfoil at near stall condition. The study aims at answering two research questions: identify the flow mechanism responsible for separation noise for an…
In an attempt to reduce jet noise, blended wing concept vehicle utilizes rectangular jet exhaust ports exiting from above the wing ahead of the trailing edge. In this study, we take another look at the rectangular exhaust port configuration…
Machine-learning models have demonstrated a great ability to learn complex patterns and make predictions. In high-dimensional nonlinear problems of fluid dynamics, data representation often greatly affects the performance and…
This paper presents an end-to-end approach for the assessment of pressurized and cryogenic wind tunnel measurements of an EMBRAER scaled full model close to real-world Reynolds numbers. The choice of microphones, measurement parameters, the…
Trailing-edge (TE) noise is the main contributor to the acoustic signature of flows over airfoils. It originates from the interaction of turbulent structures in the airfoil boundary layer with the TE. This study experimentally identifies…
The current practice of manually processing features for high-dimensional and heterogeneous aviation data is labor-intensive, does not scale well to new problems, and is prone to information loss, affecting the effectiveness and…
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This paper describes an investigation of the possible benefits from wing optimisation in improving the performance of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs). As an example we study the Avion (3.64 kg mass, 1.60 m span), being designed at the CSIR…