Enhancement of Airfoil Performance by Rotating Cylinder

Aerodynamic Performance Enhancement of a NACA 66-206 Airfoil Using Supersonic Channel Airfoil Design

Supersonic channel airfoil design techniques have been shown to significantly reduce drag in high-speed flows over diamond shaped airfoils by Ruffin and colleagues. The effect of applying these techniques to a NACA 66-206 airfoil is presented. The design domain entails channel heights of 8-16.6% thickness-to-chord and speeds from Mach 1.5-3.0. Numerical simulations show an increase in the lift-...

Mixing Enhancement by Dual Speed Rotating Stirrer

MIXING ENHANCEMENT BY DUAL SPEED ROTATING STIRRER by Arnaud Goullet Stirring is a well-known means of fluid mixing due to the emergence of complex patterns in the flow, even at low Reynolds numbers. In this work, we consider a stirrer rotating along a circular trajectory at constant speed. The fluid flow, considered incompressible, inviscid and two dimensional (in a circular container), is mode...

Enhancement of composite performance by hollow polyester fibers

Flow between a stationary and a rotating disk shrouded by a co-rotating cylinder

Boundary layers on stationary and rotating disks have received much attention since von Kármán’s @Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 1, 233 ~1921!# and Bödewadt’s @Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 20, 241 ~1940!# studies of the cases with disks of infinite radius. Theoretical treatments have focused on similarity treatments leading to conflicting ideas about existence and uniqueness, and where self-similar solutions e...

“Hidden” Momentum in a Charged, Rotating Cylinder

The cylinder (of radius a) and the plates of the capacitor (in the planes y = ±b) can move independently and without friction in the x-direction, where the z-axis is that of the cylinder. That axis can be electrically charged with the opposite sign to that of the cylinder such that the cylinder as a whole has zero charge. The (linear, isotropic) medium between the capacitor plates, including th...