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 …

Control strategies for tip leakage vortex using inclined squealer rim in axial turbines

Y Wang, W Zhang, D Huang, S Jiang, Y Chen… - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In a typical gas turbine, due to its complicated blade geometry, complex vortex structures
appear and cause significant aerodynamic loss. Vortex systems dominated by a tip leakage …

Active flow control devices for wing load alleviation

K Khalil, S Asaro, A Bauknecht - Journal of Aircraft, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
Active flow control has not found wide application in aircraft due to a combination of
technical challenges, costs, and small impact on overall aircraft performance. Future …

Implicit large eddy simulation of the NASA CRM high-lift configuration near stall

ZJ Wang, S Rahmani - Computers & Fluids, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent progress in adaptive high-order numerical methods, high-order mesh generation,
and scalable implicit time integration approaches has made large eddy simulation (LES) …

Wind Tunnel Testing of AFC over a Deflected Aileron on the High-Lift Common Research Model

LTP Melton, M Koklu, MY Andino… - AIAA Aviation Forum and …, 2024 - ntrs.nasa.gov
Active flow control (AFC) using discrete fluidic actuators distributed along the span, just
upstream of the deflected aileron of the 10% scale high-lift version of the Common Research …

[PDF][PDF] Challenges in Geometry Development for the CRM-HL Ecosystem

AM Clark, DS Lacy - 34th Congress of the International Council of …, 2024 - icas.org
Abstract In 2014, the High-Lift Common Research model (CRM-HL) geometry was
developed by Boeing and made publicly available to initially support efforts at NASA to …

Active Flow Control Enhanced Aileron of the High-Lift Common Research Model at Takeoff Condition

MY Andino, LTG Pack Melton, M Koklu… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
An experimental investigation was conducted in the NASA Langley 14-by 22-Foot Subsonic
Tunnel on the NASA 10% scale High-Lift Common Research Model (CRM-HL) to improve …

FUN3D Simulations for the 4th AIAA High-Lift Prediction Workshop

NN Ahmad, L Wang, WK Anderson… - AIAA Aviation 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-3436. vid A summary of the FUN3D
simulations for the 4th AIAA High-Lift Prediction Workshop is presented. Various Reynolds …

Experimental Investigation of Suction and Oscillatory Blowing as an Alternative for a Leading Edge Slat

S Monat, A Kor, A Seifert, O Stalnov - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
High lift devices such as flaps and slats have conventionally served in multi-element wings
to enhance aerodynamic performances in general, and lift in particular. However, more …

Computational investigation of conventional and active-flow-control-enabled high-lift configurations

VN Vatsa, JC Lin, LP Melton, DP Lockard, R Ferris - Journal of Aircraft, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
The work presented in this paper is a culmination of a multiyear joint experimental and
computational effort to explore the feasibility of using active flow control (AFC) on a simple …