Flow control for unmanned air vehicles

D Greenblatt, DR Williams - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The pervasiveness of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), from insect to airplane scales,
combined with active flow control maturity, has set the scene for vehicles that differ markedly …

Review of ceramic composites in aeronautics and aerospace: A multifunctional approach for TPS, TBC and DBD applications

KO Shvydyuk, J Nunes-Pereira, FF Rodrigues, AP Silva - Ceramics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The quest for increased performance in the aeronautical and aerospace industries has
provided the driving force and motivation for the research, investigation, and development of …

Unified mechanisms for separation control around airfoil using plasma actuator with burst actuation over Reynolds number range of 103–106

M Sato, K Okada, K Asada, H Aono, T Nonomura… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We conduct large-eddy simulations of separated airfoil flows with control by a dielectric-
barrier-discharge plasma actuator over a wide range of Reynolds numbers. The Reynolds …

Role of the electric waveform supplying a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator

N Benard, E Moreau - Applied Physics Letters, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The paper compares the influence of different waveforms as input for a dielectric barrier
discharge plasma actuator investigated in context of plasma-assisted flow control. The …

Mechanisms for laminar separated-flow control using dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma actuator at low Reynolds number

M Sato, T Nonomura, K Okada, K Asada, H Aono… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Large-eddy simulations have been conducted to investigate the mechanisms of separated-
flow control using a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator at a low Reynolds number …

High-lift airfoil trailing edge separation control using a single dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator

J Little, M Nishihara, I Adamovich, M Samimy - Experiments in fluids, 2010 - Springer
Control of flow separation from the deflected flap of a high-lift airfoil up to Reynolds numbers
of 240,000 (15 m/s) is explored using a single dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma …

Flow control over an airfoil using virtual Gurney flaps

LH Feng, KS Choi, JJ Wang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Flow control over a NACA 0012 airfoil is carried out using a dielectric barrier discharge
(DBD) plasma actuator at the Reynolds number of 20 000. Here, the plasma actuator is …

[PDF][PDF] Numerical and experimental investigations of lift and drag performances of NACA 0015 wind turbine airfoil

İ Şahin, A Acir - International Journal of Materials, Mechanics and …, 2015 - ijmmm.org
In the present work, we studied numerical and experimentally analysis lift and drag
performances of NACA 0015 airfoil at different attack angle at low Reynolds numbers (Re) …

Closed-loop flow separation control using the deep Q network over airfoil

S Shimomura, S Sekimoto, A Oyama, K Fujii, H Nishida - AIAA Journal, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
The effectiveness of closed-loop flow control using a deep Q network (DQN), such as deep
reinforcement learning algorithm, was experimentally researched for a NACA0015 airfoil …

Control of the corner separation in a compressor cascade by steady and unsteady plasma aerodynamic actuation

Y Li, Y Wu, M Zhou, C Su, X Zhang, J Zhu - Experiments in fluids, 2010 - Springer
This paper reports experimental results on using steady and unsteady plasma aerodynamic
actuation to control the corner separation, which forms over the suction surface and end wall …