[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation on turbulence effects on unsteady aerodynamics performances of two horizontally placed small-size UAV rotors

NL Oo, D Zhao, M Sellier, X Liu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind turbulent disturbance is one of the critical challenges to flying unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs); especially when the size, weight, and power on board such aircraft are …

Effect of turbulence on the performance of VAWTs: An experimental study in two different wind tunnels

AC Molina, T De Troyer, T Massai, A Vergaerde… - Journal of Wind …, 2019 - Elsevier
Turbulence is one of the main characteristics of urban flows, but its effect on the performance
of small VAWTs (often used in urban wind installations) has not been thoroughly …

On the wind energy resource above high-rise buildings

G Vita, A Šarkić-Glumac, H Hemida, S Salvadori… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
One of the main challenges of urban wind energy harvesting is the understanding of the flow
characteristics where urban wind turbines are to be installed. Among viable locations within …

Increase of unsteady pressure at a trailing edge due to inflow turbulence

L Botero-Bolívar, FL Dos Santos, CH Venner… - AIAA journal, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents new insights into the penetration of the freestream turbulence in a
turbulent boundary layer. Experiments evidence an increase in the velocity fluctuations and …

Grid generated turbulence under the rigid boundary influence

PK Raushan, SK Singh, K Debnath - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2018 - Elsevier
An experimental investigation was carried out to study the grid generated turbulence and
rigid boundary interaction for different mesh size of grid. Quadrant analysis technique was …

Free-stream turbulence interaction with a wing-tip vortex

KB Miloud, M Dghim, H Fellouah, M Ferchichi - Journal of Wind Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
The interaction of a wing-tip vortex of a rectangular, square-tipped wing having a NACA
0012 airfoil section with a grid-generated turbulent flow was investigated in this paper. The …

Comparison of turbulence integral length scale determination methods

A Trush, S Pospíšil, H Kozmar - WIT Transactions on Engineering …, 2020 - witpress.com
Grids at the inlet of the wind-tunnel test section have been commonly used to create
turbulent conditions for model experiments concerning civil engineering applications. The …

The effect of the integral length scale of turbulence on a wind turbine aerofoil

G Vita, H Hemida, T Andrianne… - Journal of Wind …, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of free stream turbulence on a DU96w180 wind turbine aerofoil is investigated
through wind tunnel experiments. Wind turbine blades experience large scale, high intensity …

Flow-conditioning of a subsonic wind tunnel to model boundary layer flows

T Ghazal, J Chen, M Aboutabikh, H Aboshosha… - Wind and …, 2020 - koreascience.kr
This study aims at modeling boundary layers (BLs) encountered in sparse and built
environments (ie open, suburban and urban) at the subsonic Wind Tunnel (WT) at Ryerson …

Direct numerical simulation of flapping flags in grid-induced turbulence

S Olivieri, F Viola, A Mazzino, ME Rosti - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A fully resolved direct numerical simulation approach for investigating flexible bodies forced
by a turbulent incoming flow is designed to study the flapping motion of a flexible flag at the …