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Transonic buffet presents time-dependent aerodynamic characteristics associated with shock, turbulent boundary layer, and their interactions. Despite strong nonlinearities and a large degree of freedom, there exists a dominant dynamic…
Self-sustained low-frequency flow unsteadiness over rigid aerofoils in the transonic regime is referred to as transonic buffet. Although the exact physical mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are unclear, it is generally assumed to be…
Transonic buffet refers to the self-sustained periodic motion of shock waves observed in transonic flows over wings and limits the flight envelope of aircraft. Based on the boundary layer characteristics at the shock foot, buffet has been…
In the age of globalization, commercial aviation plays a central role in maintaining our international connectivity by providing fast air transport services for passengers and freight. However, the upper limit of the aircraft flight…
Transonic buffet is commonly associated with self-sustained flow unsteadiness involving shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction over aerofoils and wings. The phenomenon has been classified as either laminar or turbulent based on the state of…
Turbulent transonic buffet is an aerodynamic instability causing periodic oscillations of lift/drag in aerospace applications. Involving complex coupling between inviscid and viscous effects, buffet is characterised by shock-wave…
Transonic shock buffet is a nonlinear, unsteady aerodynamic phenomenon characterized by self-sustained, periodic shock oscillations that can critically affect aircraft structural integrity. While the aerodynamic aspects of shock buffet have…
Coherent, self-sustained oscillations of the flow over aircraft wings can lead to unsteady loads that detrimentally affect aircraft safety and stability, thus limiting the flight envelope. Two such types of oscillations are the…
Transonic buffet is an unsteady flow phenomenon that limits the safe flight envelope of modern aircraft. Scale-resolving simulations with span-periodic boundary conditions are capable of providing new insights into its flow physics. The…
Transonic buffet is a well-known aerodynamic instability of shock/boundary layer interaction in the transonic regime for aircraft. So far, this phenomenon has typically been investigated by modal and correlation analyses. Here, we present a…
Historically, investigations on gust encounters have been limited to thin airfoils. In this work, we examine vortex-gust encounters by a family of airfoils at a chord-based Reynolds number Re_c=100, which includes variations in the gust…
Transonic buffet is an instability characterized by shock-oscillations and separated boundary-layers. High-fidelity simulations have typically been limited to narrow domains to be computationally feasible, overly constraining the flow and…
Transonic buffet is a flow instability phenomenon that arises from the interaction between the shock wave and the separated boundary layer. This flow phenomenon is considered to be highly detrimental during flight and poses a significant…
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…
Shock buffet on wings encountered in edge-of-the-envelope transonic flight remains an unresolved and disputed flow phenomenon, challenging both fundamental fluid mechanics and applied aircraft aerodynamics. The question of global…
The transonic flow around the OAT15A airfoil is computed at buffet conditions, i.e., freestream Mach number $Ma_\infty = 0.73$, chord-based freestream Reynolds number $Re_c = 2\cdot10^6$, and angle of attack $\alpha = 3.5^\circ$ using…
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…
In transonic flow over aircraft wings, shock-boundary-layer interactions can give rise to transonic buffet, which degrades maneuverability through unsteady aerodynamic loads. Beyond its practical importance, two-dimensional transonic buffet…
This paper investigates the effect of the geometric parameters -- rod diameter and the distance between the rod and the airfoil -- on the noise generated by rod-airfoil configuration using experimental and numerical techniques. The…
The transonic buffet is a detrimental phenomenon occurs on supercritical airfoils and limits aircraft's operating envelope. Traditional methods for predicting buffet onset rely on multiple computational fluid dynamics simulations to assess…