Control of low Reynolds number flows by means of fluid–structure interactions

I Gursul, DJ Cleaver, Z Wang - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
There is great interest in small aircraft known as Micro Air Vehicles and mini Unmanned Air
Vehicles due to the wide range of possible applications. This article reviews recent work that …

Some aspects of aerodynamic flow control using synthetic-jet actuation

A Glezer - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Aerodynamic flow control effected by interactions of surface-mounted synthetic (zero net
mass flux) jet actuators with a local cross flow is reviewed. These jets are formed by the …

Adaptive separation control of a laminar boundary layer using online dynamic mode decomposition

EA Deem, LN Cattafesta III, MS Hemati… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Adaptive control of flow separation based on online dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is
formulated and implemented on a canonical separated laminar boundary layer via a pulse …

Flow separation control over an airfoil using dual excitation of DBD plasma actuators

A Ebrahimi, M Hajipour - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates flow separation control over an airfoil using dual excitation of DBD
plasma actuators as a novel approach. Large eddy simulation is adopted to capture vortical …

Lift enhancement by means of small-amplitude airfoil oscillations at low Reynolds numbers

DJ Cleaver, Z Wang, I Gursul, MR Visbal - AIAA journal, 2011 - arc.aiaa.org
RECENT interest in small unmanned air vehicles and micro air vehicles (MAVs) has been
summarized in several review articles [1, 2]. As the length scale of MAVs is of the order of …

Effect of varying frequency of a synthetic jet on flow separation over an airfoil

M Kim, EE Essel, PE Sullivan - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
An experimental investigation on the effects of the synthetic jet actuator (SJA) was
conducted on a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 0025 airfoil in a low-speed …

A direct numerical simulation investigation of the synthetic jet frequency effects on separation control of low-Re flow past an airfoil

W Zhang, R Samtaney - Physics of Fluids, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We present results of direct numerical simulations of a synthetic jet (SJ) based separation
control of flow past a NACA-0018 (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) airfoil, at 10 …

Characterization of synthetic jet actuation with application to Ahmed body wake

A Kourta, C Leclerc - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2013 - Elsevier
The active flow control by synthetic jet is applied on a road vehicle wake flow. Experiments
have been conducted in a wind tunnel. Experimental model is an Ahmed body scaled at 0.7 …

Review on flow separation control: effects of excitation frequency and momentum coefficient

S Abdolahipour - Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the studies and research conducted on flow
separation control on lifting surfaces. In this paper, two critical parameters, namely, the …

Large Eddy simulation of a NACA0015 circulation control airfoil using synthetic jets

P Itsariyapinyo, RN Sharma - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Large eddy simulation of a NACA0015 circulation control airfoil using synthetic jets is
conducted. A chord Reynolds number of 1.10× 10 5, the excitation frequency of 175 Hz, the …