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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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kai Fukami , Yuta Iwatani , Soju Maejima , Hiroyuki Asada , Soshi Kawai

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-05 Jing Wang , Hairun Xie , Miao Zhang , Hui Xu

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-23 Pradeep Moise , Markus Zauner , Neil D. Sandham , Sebastian Timme , Wei He

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-23 Pradeep Moise , Markus Zauner , Neil D. Sandham

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-04 David J. Lusher , Andrea Sansica , Markus Zauner , Atsushi Hashimoto

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-08 Markus Zauner , Pradeep Moise , Neil D. Sandham

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-17 Magan Singh , Kartik Venkatraman

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-26 Vishw Patel , Aman Jain , Jewel Rupini , Antony Raja Arulsekar , Pradeep Moise

Transonic buffet is a class of shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction known to exhibit self-sustained two-dimensional (2D) chordwise shock wave oscillations (Strouhal number St=0.05-0.1), and three-dimensional (3D) spanwise-modulated flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-09 David J. Lusher , Andrea Sansica

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-20 Sebastian Timme

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yunjia Yang , Runze Li , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Pradeep Moise , Markus Zauner , Neil Sandham

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

Fluid flow in the transonic regime finds relevance in aerospace engineering, particularly in the design of commercial air transportation vehicles. Computational fluid dynamics models of transonic flow for aerospace applications are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-14 S. Ashwin Renganathan , Romit Maulik , Vishwas Rao

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-29 David J. Lusher , Andrea Sansica , Atsushi Hashimoto

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-06 Michael Candon , Vincenzo Muscarello , Pier Marzocca , Oleg Levinski

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

Numerical simulation of the transonic shock buffet phenomenon remains a formidable challenge due to its inherent nonlinear and unsteady characteristics. These difficulties are further compounded in three-dimensional configurations and when…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Michael Candon , Pier Marzocca , Earl H. Dowell

Transonic buffet, self--sustained shock and shear--layer oscillations, imposes hard limits on the cruise envelope of modern transport aircraft, and avoiding it is a primary design driver. State-of-the-art buffet-onset criteria used in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-07 Rohit Sunil Kanchi , Sicheng He , Eirikur Jonsson , Joaquim R. R. A. Martins

It's difficult to accurately predict the flow with shock waves over an aircraft due to the flow's strongly nonlinear characteristics. In this study, we propose an accuracy-enhanced flow prediction method that fuses deep learning and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-27 Xuyi Jia , Chunlin Gong , Wen Ji , Chunna Li
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