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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…
We investigate ambient fluid entrainment and near-field flow characteristics of a free surface plunging jet for five Reynolds numbers ranging from 3000 to 10000 using time-resolved stereo particle image velocimetry (SPIV). We present…
Understanding fluid flow through porous media with complex geometries is essential for improving the design and operation of packed-bed reactors. Most existing studies focus on spherical packings, having as a consequence that accurate…
Robust topology optimization (RTO), as a class of topology optimization problems, identifies a design with the best average performance while reducing the response sensitivity to input uncertainties, e.g. load uncertainty. Solving RTO is…
The influence that the kinematics of pitching and heaving 2D airfoils have on the aerodynamic forces is investigated using Direct Numerical Simulations and a force decomposition algorithm. Large amplitude motions are considered (of the…
We develop an optimal resolvent-based estimator and controller to predict and attenuate unsteady vortex shedding fluctuations in the laminar wake of a NACA 0012 airfoil at an angle of attack of 6.5 degrees, chord-based Reynolds number of…
With more efficient structures, last trends in aeronautics have witnessed an increased flexibility of wings, calling for adequate design and optimization approaches. To correctly model the coupled physics, aerostructural optimization has…
This study investigates the effect of surface dimples on the unsteady aerodynamics of a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics airfoil (NACA0012) at a chord-based Reynolds numbers of $Re_c = 5300$ and $10{,}000$ using direct numerical…
This paper presents a method of computing section lift characteristics for a 2-dimensional airfoil with a second 2-dimensional object at a position at or ahead of the leading edge of the airfoil. Since both objects are 2-dimensional, the…
Airplane refueling problem is a nonlinear unconstrained optimization problem with $n!$ feasible solutions. Given a fleet of $n$ airplanes with mid-air refueling technique, the question is to find the best refueling policy to make the last…
The aim of the present work is to investigate the mechanisms of broadband trailing-edge noise generation to improve prediction tools and control strategies. We focus on a NACA 0012 airfoil at 3 degrees angle of attack and chord Reynolds…
In this paper, we develop a rigorous mathematical framework for the optimization of hip roof house geometry, with the primary goal of minimizing the external surface of the building envelope for a given set of design constraints. Five…
We present a numerical study to characterize nonlinear unsteady aeroelastic interactions of two-dimensional flexible wings at high angles of attack. The coupled fluid-flexible wing system is solved by a body-fitted variational aeroelastic…
Aerodynamic shape optimization (ASO) involves finding an optimal surface while constraining a set of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE). The conventional approaches use quasi-Newton methods operating in the reduced-space, where…
The work provides an integrated pipeline for the model order reduction of turbulent flows around parametrised geometries in aerodynamics. In particular, Free-Form Deformation is applied for geometry parametrisation, whereas two different…
This paper revisits the origin of topology optimisation for fluid flow problems, namely the Poiseuille-based frictional resistance term used to parametrise regions of solid and fluid. The traditional model only works for true topology…
Co-design optimisation of autonomous systems has emerged as a powerful alternative to sequential approaches by jointly optimising physical design and control strategies. However, existing frameworks often neglect the robustness required for…
In this paper, a novel mechanism-driven reinforcement learning framework is proposed for airfoil shape optimization. To validate the framework, a reward function is designed and analyzed, from which the equivalence between the maximizing…
We present a new optimal systolic inequality for a closed Riemannian manifold X, which generalizes a number of earlier inequalities, including that of C. Loewner. We characterize the boundary case of equality in terms of the geometry of the…
The proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) output relies on the transport behavior within the cathode gas channels. Current designs remain inadequate as they often rely on heuristic modifications of existing layouts or designer…