Closed-loop turbulence control: Progress and challenges

SL Brunton, BR Noack - Applied Mechanics …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Closed-loop turbulence control is a critical enabler of aerodynamic drag reduction, lift
increase, mixing enhancement, and noise reduction. Current and future applications have …

Adaptive and model-based control theory applied to convectively unstable flows

N Fabbiane, O Semeraro… - Applied …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Research on active control for the delay of laminar–turbulent transition in boundary layers
has made a significant progress in the last two decades, but the employed strategies have …

Resolvent-based optimal estimation of transitional and turbulent flows

E Martini, AVG Cavalieri, P Jordan, A Towne… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We extend the resolvent-based estimation approach recently introduced by Towne etal.(J.
Fluid Mech., vol. 883, 2020, A17) to obtain optimal, non-causal estimates of time-varying …

Active control of transonic buffet flow

C Gao, W Zhang, J Kou, Y Liu, Z Ye - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Transonic buffet is a phenomenon of aerodynamic instability with shock wave motions which
occurs at certain combinations of Mach number and mean angle of attack, and which limits …

Closed-loop control of a free shear flow: a framework using the parabolized stability equations

K Sasaki, G Tissot, AVG Cavalieri, FJ Silvestre… - … and Computational Fluid …, 2018 - Springer
In this study the parabolized stability equations (PSE) are used to build reduced-order-
models (ROMs) given in terms of frequency and time-domain transfer functions (TFs) for …

On the role of adaptivity for robust laminar flow control

N Fabbiane, B Simon, F Fischer… - Journal of Fluid …, 2015 - cambridge.org
In boundary-layer flows, one may reduce skin-friction drag by delaying the onset of laminar-
to-turbulent transition via the attenuation of small-amplitude Tollmien–Schlichting (TS) …

Nonlinear optimal suppression of vortex shedding from a circular cylinder

X Mao, HM Blackburn, SJ Sherwin - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
This study is focused on two-and three-dimensional incompressible flow past a circular
cylinder for Reynolds number, accompanied by 70% drag reduction when a nonlinear …

A realizable data-driven approach to delay bypass transition with control theory

P Morra, K Sasaki, A Hanifi, AVG Cavalieri… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The current work presents a realizable method to control streaky disturbances in boundary
layer flows and delay transition to turbulence by means of active flow control. Numerical …

On the wave-cancelling nature of boundary layer flow control

K Sasaki, P Morra, N Fabbiane, AVG Cavalieri… - … and Computational Fluid …, 2018 - Springer
This work deals with the feedforward active control of Tollmien–Schlichting instability waves
over incompressible 2D and 3D boundary layers. Through an extensive numerical study …

On the role of actuation for the control of streaky structures in boundary layers

K Sasaki, P Morra, AVG Cavalieri, A Hanifi… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
This work deals with the closed-loop control of streaky structures induced by free-stream
turbulence (FST), at the levels of 3.0% and 3.5%, in a zero-pressure-gradient transitional …