The development of a wind turbine aerodynamics model using a Boundary Integral Equation model (BIEM) is presented. The methodology is valid to study inviscid unsteady flows around three dimensional bodies of arbitrary shape and arbitrarily moving with respect to the incoming flow. The extension of this methodology to study viscosity effects in turbine blade flow at high angle of attack is addre...

The synthesis of a comprehensive theory of force production in insect flight is hindered in part by the lack of precise knowledge of unsteady forces produced by wings. Data are especially sparse in the intermediate Reynolds number regime (10<Re<1000) appropriate for the flight of small insects. This paper attempts to fill this deficit by quantifying the time-dependence of aerodynamic forces for...

There have been significant efforts recently aimed at improving the aerodynamic performance of aerofoils through the modification of their surfaces. Inspired by the drag-reducing properties of the tooth-like denticles that cover the skin of sharks, we describe here experimental and simulation-based investigations into the aerodynamic effects of novel denticle-inspired designs placed along the s...

This paper presents a computational study on the aerodynamic effectiveness of vane-type fan-flow deflectors used for reducing jet noise from a supersonic turbofan exhaust with bypass ratio of 2.7. The numerical code solved the three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations. A series of nozzle configurations using deflector vanes of variable number, airfoil section, azimuthal mounti...

This paper deals with the numerical simulation of the twodimensional, incompressible, steady air flow past an airfoil for a solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with internal propulsion system. This airfoil results from a NACA 2415 four digits family base airfoil modification [7] and has a propulsive outlet with the shape of a step on the suction surface. The analysis involved the airfoi...

ScMf.r^ A review of lighter aircraft development programs over the pas t.three decades Indicates a trend of increasing emphasis on the considera tion of static aeroe las tic effects. While early concerns addressed only the impact on air vehicle structural integrity, current design philosophy recognizes and addresses aen jelastlclty as a primary design parameter affecting structural optimiza tio...

This paper presents aerodynamic shape optimization of a supersonic wing for supersonic civil transportation (SST) using an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) coupled with an Euler/Navier-Stokes code. To overcome enormous computational time necessary for the design, aerodynamic evaluations are parallelized on Numerical Wind Tunnel (NWT) at National Aerospace Laboratory, a parallel vector machine with 1...

The effect of cup anemometer shape parameters, such as the cups' shape, their size, and their center rotation radius, was experimentally analyzed. This analysis was based on both the calibration constants of the transfer function and the most important harmonic term of the rotor's movement, which due to the cup anemometer design is the third one. This harmonic analysis represents a new approach...

NUMERICAL SIMULA nON OF THE AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF AN H-ROTOR YanChen August 1 st, 2011 Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are devices to convert wind energy into electricity. Unlike horizontal axis wind turbines (HA WT) where the main rotor shaft is set horizontally, VAWTs use vertical rotor shaft. Unlike HAWTs, VAWTs can be effectively used in urban environment where flow is characterize...

To understand / evaluate behaviour of these complex jets freestream interactions, experiments were carried out in the freestream Mach number range of 0.6 to 1.8 varying jet pressure ratios in the range of 1 to about 15 on a twin jet afterbody configuration. Test results show that afterbody total drag in general increased (for the Mach number range of this investigation) with the increase in jet...