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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

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…

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 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

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 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

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

This article utilizes the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) paradigm with a physics-based turbulence modeling approach, including a dynamic subgrid-scale model and an equilibrium wall model, to examine the flow over the NASA transonic Common…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-11 Konrad A. Goc , Rahul Agrawal , Sanjeeb T. Bose , Parviz Moin

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

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

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

Many physical systems exhibit limit cycle oscillations induced by Hopf bifurcations. In aerospace engineering, limit cycle oscillations arise from undesirable Hopf bifurcation phenomena such as aeroelastic flutter and transonic buffet. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Sicheng He , Max Howell , Daning Huang , Eirikur Jonsson , Galen W. Ng , Joaquim R. R. A. Martins

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

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

A minimalist approach to the linear stability problem in fluid dynamics is developed that ensures efficiency by utilizing only the essential elements required to find the eigenvalues for given boundary conditions. It is shown that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-06 Nektarios Vlahakis

Linear stability theory (LST) is often used to model the large-scale flow structures in the turbulent mixing region and near pressure field of high-speed jets. For perfectly-expanded single round jets, these models predict the dominance of…

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 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

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

Recent research into buffet in the transonic flow regime has been focused on a limited number of proprietary airfoil geometries and has mainly considered parametric variations in Mach number and angle of attack. In contrast, relatively…

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