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  • Aeroelastic Gust-Airfoil Interaction Numerical Studies

    PI Vladimir Golubev

    The project conducted in collaboration with WPAFB and Eglin AFB AFRL scientists over the past 8 years employs DOD HPC and ERAU computer facilities to conduct high-fidelity, low-Reynolds, aeroelastic gust-airfoil interaction studies to model unsteady responses and their control for small UAVs operating, e.g., in highly unsteady urban canyons.

    The focus is on modeling airfoil interactions with canonical upstream flow configurations including time-harmonic and sharp-edge gusts, vortices and synthetic turbulence with prescribed characteristics tailored to a specified unsteady flight-path environment. Note that this and other listed projects that include noise predictions and noise/flow control components are partially supported by Florida Center for Advanced Aero Propulsion (FCAAP) in these efforts

    Tags: aeronautical engineering aerospace engineering

    Categories: Faculty-Staff

  • Self-Sustained Flow-Acoustic Interactions in Airfoil Transitional Boundary Layers

    PI Vladimir Golubev

    CO-I Reda Mankbadi

    This work carries out collaborative theoretical, experimental and numerical investigations of flow-acoustic resonant interactions in transitional airfoils which are responsible for sudden appearance of prominent acoustic tones and unsteady aerodynamic fluctuations in low-Reynolds-number airfoils.

    The experimental part of the efforts is implemented in France at anechoic wind tunnel facility of Ecole Centrale de Lyon, while numerical and theoretical studies are conducted at Embry-Riddle using DOD HPC facilities. The project involves several PhD and MSAE students both in U.S. and France.

    Tags: aerospace engineering aeronautical engineering

    Categories: Faculty-Staff

  • Synthetic Jet-Based Robust MAV Flight Controller

    PI Vladimir Golubev

    This project conducts theoretical and high-fidelity numerical analyses of UAV robust flight controller employing synthetic-jet actuators (SJAs). The technology-demonstration feasibility study focuses on SJA-based suppression of gust-induced airfoil flutter.

    It joins AE and Engineering Physics faculty and students (including undergraduate) in preparation for Phase 2 effort that will include experimental validation and further development and commercialization of the novel flight control technology

    Tags: aerospace engineering unmanned and autonomous systems aeronautical engineering

    Categories: Faculty-Staff

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