Physics and modeling of large flow disturbances: discrete gust encounters for modern air vehicles

AR Jones, O Cetiner, MJ Smith - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Gusts of moderate and large magnitude induce flow separation and other complexities when
they interact with the lifting surfaces of air vehicles. The presence of these nonlinear gusts …

Space-time characterization of ship airwakes

N Zhu, Z Zhang, E Gnanamanickam… - AIAA Journal, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
The turbulent airwakes produced by a generic navy frigate (Simple Frigate Ship 2) was
investigated in a low-speed wind tunnel. The frigate model was subjected to a headwind …

The NATO generic destroyer–a shared geometry for collaborative research into modelling and simulation of shipboard helicopter launch and recovery

I Owen, R Lee, A Wall, N Fernandez - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The helicopter-ship dynamic interface is the environment above the landing deck of a ship
where a helicopter pilot has to control the aircraft while contending with a moving deck and …

Numerical studies on the aeroelasticity of a shipboard helicopter rotor during engagement and disengagement with ship motions using CFD/CSD coupling approach

P Yu, Z Hu, J Hu, G Xu, Y Shi - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
When the shipboard helicopter rotor engages and disengages on a ship deck, due to the
influence of wind-over-deck environment and ship airwake, the heterogeneity of rotor airload …

Comparative assessment of URANS, SAS and DES turbulence modeling in the predictions of massively separated ship airwake characteristics

S Shukla, SN Singh, SS Sinha, R Vijayakumar - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
An early assessment of the ship airwake characteristics is one of the most challenging tasks
associated with the designing of vessels. The design of warship superstructures has …

Turbulence characteristics of the ship air-wake with two different topside arrangements and inflow conditions

H Setiawan, J Philip, JP Monty - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate the effect of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) and vessel topside
arrangement on ship air-wake flow. The investigation is performed by comparing …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of high-and mid-fidelity computational fluid dynamics for complex ship airwake analysis with new experimental data

B Oates, E Kurban, J Rauleder… - Proceedings of the 79th …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Safe flight with maneuvers of rotorcraft systems in the near vicinity of Naval ships poses a
number of challenges due to the rapidly changing flow conditions and unsteady wake …

An investigation on the wake flow of a generic ship using IDDES: The effect of computational parameters

J Zhang, F Gidado, A Adamu, Z Guo, G Gao - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The study of the ship airwake is critical as it explores the effect of unsteady wake flow on
helicopter operations. This paper studied the near-wake flow topology of a generic ship at …

Dynamics of large-scale flow structures within ship airwakes

N Zhu, Z Zhang, E Gnanamanickam… - AIAA Scitech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-2532. vid The three-dimensional,
unsteady, and turbulent airwake produced by a scaled model of a generic Navy ship (Simple …

Prediction of the aerodynamic behaviour of a full-scale naval ship in head waves using Detached Eddy Simulation

A Nisham, M Terziev, T Tezdogan, T Beard, A Incecik - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The airwake behaviour around a ship provides useful information for the safe operation of
helicopters on naval ships as well as in helicopter pilot training. This study investigates the …