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 …

Perspectives and energy applications of magnetocaloric, pyromagnetic, electrocaloric, and pyroelectric materials

K Klinar, JY Law, V Franco, X Moya… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This perspective provides an overview of the state of research and innovation in the areas of
magnetocaloric and pyromagnetic materials, and electrocaloric and pyroelectric materials …

A review of experiments on stationary bluff body wakes

B Forouzi Feshalami, S He, F Scarano, L Gan… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Experimental studies dealing with the wake of isolated stationary bluff bodies are reviewed.
After briefly recalling the pioneering works in this domain, the paper focuses on recent …

Jet oscillations and mixing in fluidic oscillators: influence of geometric configuration and scale

K Madane, V Ranade - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fluidic oscillators (FOs) harness inherently oscillating jets for improving mixing, heat, and
mass transfer and offer an attractive device platform for a wide range of applications. Despite …

Effect of base blowing by a large-scale fluidic oscillator on the bistable wake behind a flat-back Ahmed body

D Veerasamy, AR Tajik, L Pastur, V Parezanović - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of the wake behind a flat-back Ahmed body are modified using a large-scale
fluidic oscillator, aiming at drag reduction and the reflectional symmetry breaking (RSB) …

Control of afterbody vortices from a slanted-base cylinder using sweeping jets

X Chen, S Zhong, O Ozer, A Weightman - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, a sweeping jet is applied to control the afterbody vortices behind a slanted-
base cylinder for the first time at Reynolds numbers from 87 000 to 200 000. The control …

Drag reduction of a slanted-base cylinder using sweeping jets

X Chen, S Zhong, O Ozer, A Weightman - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, a pair of sweeping jet actuators is installed underneath the endplate of a slanted-
base cylinder at Re D= 200 000. The sweeping jets form a 30 inclined angle with the …

On the unsteady interactions between a sweeping jet and afterbody vortices

X Chen, S Zhong, O Ozer, A Weightman, G Gao - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, a sweeping jet was applied to control the afterbody vortices behind a 30
slanted-base cylinder at a Reynolds number of 87 000. Phase-locked stereo particle image …

Numerical study of the effect of geometric scaling of a fluidic oscillator on the heat transfer and frequency of impinging sweeping jet

A Joulaei, M Nili-Ahmadabadi, MY Ha - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In this research, the effects of a new approach of geometric scaling on the heat transfer rate
of a hot plate impinged by a sweeping jet were investigated numerically. In this approach …

Thermal pollution level reduction by sweeping jet-based enhanced heat dissipation: A numerical study with calibrated Generalized k-ω (GEKO) model

Z Li, Y Liu, W Zhou, X Wen, Y Liu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal pollution is commonly the damage to natural ecosystems caused by industrial water
discharge into the environment above ambient temperature. The highly efficiently dissipative …