A numerical investigation is conducted to study flow structures and interactions that are caused by a pitched synthetic jet placed in a laminar (Blasius) boundary layer with zero pressure gradient. Simulations are performed for various permutations of jet parameters including pitch angle (i.e., θ=60, 75, and 90), blowing ratio (i.e., Cb = 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0), and non-dimensional actuation f...

Several previous experimental and theoretical studies have shown that a leading edge vortex (LEV) on an airfoil or wing can provide lift enhancement. In this paper, unsteady two-dimensional (2D) potential flow theory is employed to model the flow field of a pitching flat plate wing. A multi-vortices model is developed to model both the leading edge and trailing edge vortices (TEVs), which offer...

This paper explores the use of nonparallel adjoint methods to predict the receptivity of two and three-dimensional boundary layers. Solutions obtained from both adjoint Navier–Stokes (ANS) and adjoint parabolized stability equations (APSE) have been validated against linearized Navier–Stokes (LNS) solutions that provide a full description of the linear receptivity process. The adjoint methods a...

When it is not actively transporting cargo, conventional Kinesin-1 is present in the cytoplasm in a folded conformation that cannot interact effectively with microtubules (MTs). Two important and largely unexplored aspects of kinesin regulation are how it is converted to an active species when bound to cargo and the related issue of how kinesin discriminates among its many potential cargo molec...

Acoustic receptivity was experimentally examined for a Blasius boundary layer with receptivity sites in the form of 2-D waviness and oblique waviness. Linear receptivity coeecients obtained for all values of forcing combinations (h) are in good agreement with receptivity theory. The measured receptivity increased markedly with increasing wave obliqueness. Detuning was investigated by varying th...

Acoustic receptivity was experimentally examined for a Blasius boundary layer with receptivity sites in the form of 2-D waviness and oblique waviness. Linear receptivity coe cients obtained for all values of forcing combinations ( h) are in good agreement with receptivity theory. The measured receptivity increased markedly with increasing wave obliqueness. Detuning was investigated by varying t...

We consider the incompressible stationary flow of a fluid past a semi-infinite flat plate. This is a very old and well studied problem and is discussed in most introductory texts on fluid mechanics. Indeed, an easy scaling argument shows that far downstream the flow should be to leading order described by the so called Blasius solution, and this has been confirmed to good precision by experimen...

Experiments are performed using dry and humid air to ascertain the effect of humidity on the performance of a plasma actuator in flight conditions. These actuators are becoming popular in controlling flow about low to moderate speed aerospace vehicles. These experiments are performed at a new Test Facility of the Computational Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (CPDL) in Kettering University. A blow-do...